What's not a myth is the person applying for a job as a developer that can't code. There are tons of people that apply for jobs as programmers that can barely write two lines of working code. They can't read code, they get weirdly confused when writing a simple loop, just total incompetents in every respect.

I'm not saying you have to be able to pass a FAANG technical screen or you are crap, I'm just saying there are a lot of pretenders that still apply for and manage to get jobs writing software.