Yeah, anyone who thinks that media is less complex or less demanding than programming should spend a day doing some visual effects work for a live action movie (try creating a virtual character sometime) or talk to the guy I'm working with to do my photo finishing.
The reality is that it's far, far more demanding than programming, especially with modern languages.
With proper up-front design effort, programming is easy. The catch is that the up-front design requires engineering skills and is actually challenging, and most of today's programmers skip that and dive right into programming... leading to the vast mountains of crap we have today. (Look at amazon's codebase sometime. It's such an atrocity that it drives people out of the industry.)
The reality is that it's far, far more demanding than programming, especially with modern languages.
With proper up-front design effort, programming is easy. The catch is that the up-front design requires engineering skills and is actually challenging, and most of today's programmers skip that and dive right into programming... leading to the vast mountains of crap we have today. (Look at amazon's codebase sometime. It's such an atrocity that it drives people out of the industry.)