Can't agree more with these points.
The first one is basically why the original documentation for WordPress worked so well. Say what you like about the software or its questionable code quality, but almost every page of documentation had a neat example or two that people could tweak to figure out a function or class or what not.
What's more, if you look at most overly well used pieces of software for development purposes, you'll notice that almost all the popular/beginner friendly ones do the same thing. jQuery, Bootstrap, React... every one of them has documentation filled with simple examples.
And for the last one, you could even expand on it a bit more and say '[name of skill] doesn't make you money, marketing it does'.
Because at the end of the day, it's not just programming in which this is the case. It's anything from art to writing to design to creating any form of media. You don't need to be good to succeed in any of these fields, you just need to be 'okay' enough that you can deliver something and marketing savvy enough to sell it to an audience.
Not realising this has likely sunk thousands of startups and companies, and understanding it has propelled many poorly done ones/outright scam artists to fame and fortune.
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