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Okay, that was an extreme example but still.
But akin to woodworking or welding or anything like that coding is craftsmanship; ofcourse it is possible to make chairs en masse on a factory, but imagine you spent your career building them by hand. Why wouldn't you be proud of small bits and parts of every item you've made?
Just because some crafts are not as old - it doesn't devalue them.
Pragmatic standpoint is completely valid, but don't forget why do we have writing systems: to convey information. That's the basic need. So taking the same pragmatic approach we don't need writers nor poets nor prose or anything of sorts: language exists to transfer data from human to human, and don't you dare to find any of that serialization into english/anything beautiful. Is that it?