Just because programming for YOU comes naturally doesn't mean it does for others.
You obviously didn't read what I wrote. The point is that people can always learn to be adequate programmers. But if the experience of programming is so different from the way they process information, that the act of programming is mentally uncomfortable for them, then they will never be great. The discomfort has NOTHING to do with hard work. It's like sales. You could spend your whole life being a decent salesperson but if you hate interacting with people you'll never be a great salesperson that closes multi-million dollar deals. It's as simple as that.
If you can't visualize a map, if your spatial abilities aren't strong, then having to interact daily where you need to do that would be frustrating as hell and you would hate it.
It's a huge stretch to assume someone's proficiency in a field is due to a trait they were born with. We don't even know the extent that your environment affects your brain versus your genes, so there's no way you could know people are born programmers.
You obviously didn't read what I wrote. The point is that people can always learn to be adequate programmers. But if the experience of programming is so different from the way they process information, that the act of programming is mentally uncomfortable for them, then they will never be great. The discomfort has NOTHING to do with hard work. It's like sales. You could spend your whole life being a decent salesperson but if you hate interacting with people you'll never be a great salesperson that closes multi-million dollar deals. It's as simple as that.
If you can't visualize a map, if your spatial abilities aren't strong, then having to interact daily where you need to do that would be frustrating as hell and you would hate it.