> I will concede that being good at CS will give programmers an advantage in solving problems in a subset of domains.

> I suspect I could add the word small to advantage and subset and that statement would still be true.

I doubt that's even close to true. You need CS knowledge to optimize programs and to design reliable services. It would only be true if you squint really hard and cherry pick some domains where CS knowledge isn't valuable and cherry pick what counts as 'academic CS knowledge'.

I would have edited my previous reply, but it was too late.