Hi Mario

Yes you are right, everyone is a expert. Out of that 170 people I can guarantee you only 1 person might be great at php, I'm not a coder but my business was voted top 5 in my country two years in a row, so I know how to run a great business. And whether its an agency or a shoe shop the basics are always the same. So I have tried lots of devs and I can smell their bullshit before it leaves there mouth hahahah. They have no concept of reality, there lazy, self expectant, self righteous not prepared to do whatever it takes for the customer, are not prepared to do everything properly, there to busy saying how good they are and talking shit rather than actually being good. Most people talk a good game but then when no ones watching they do the opposite,

As you pointed out any loser can get going as a wp expert, I make it a point to our customers that I am not a coder and were very careful about who we pay to do what, I also spend alot of time trying to build great relationships with the right coders, designers as there valuable to me,and ultimately to my clients for the great work they do. I generally find maybe 1 out of 100 people are actually the sort of person a great business wants to employ or partner with.
One of the worst thing i found at the moment is the Indian/ Bangladesh people who have littered every western job board with there rubbish profiles, pretending to be westerners. They don't even speak english properly yet there all experts with hundreds of site they built bahahaha.

And I think the post actually applies to everyone small or large, its basically showing people that talking crap is not a great way to operate and there is no long term business in that. However the other side of that is not everyone wants to be good either, i spend 30 hrs a week learning about wp, looking at everything and generally trying to be better and my basic wp skills, the coders i employ have written over 20.000 php tutorials for all of the top wp dev firms globally and are constant wp core contributors, and i'm really grateful that they allow me to work with them.

My standards are extremely high and the only way to do things is once and do it right the first time, as you pointed out all those shit developers in them forest who steal form the repository then lightly modify, change the stock images then sell there as there own code, theme forest love these guys, there making millions from stolen code so there actually encouraging it, they know no one will put up the 2 million needed to stop them and close them down, i am actively working with some government agency's to get them investigated as i am aware that fraud and certain parts of there operation are illegal in Australia. I also had a fight with the marketing manager form envato recently after telling a conference no to buy from envato, as its mostly stolen code and the shoddy owner is using practices that mean they are operating illegally. he quickly shut up and left like a moron when i challenged him. He knew there a scam outfit and want to bail as fast as he could.

I like the article and only hope more people are inspired to be better and grow