And, as with leaving product management to the professional product managers, it is usually better to leave the designing of UIs to the professional designers.
>And, soft skills are incredibly important for getting along with others
Not having good soft skills is not the same thing as having a toxic personality.
I've known many developers who rarely talked, rarely spoke up during meetings and just quietly got on with their job - building code to spec - and did it really well. They were, sadly, always highly underrated as developers and judging by what I've read in this thread, this is a prejudice that isn't likely to disappear any time soon.
