I have no comment on your strawmanning about programmers thinking they're geniuses or something.

But I've yet to meet an accountant who puts in their 40 hours a week and somehow manages to grow their backlog rather than shrink it.

Whereas bad programmers who will do that exist in spades.

Clearly the two professions are not identical.

That said, I've had two mind bogglingly bad accountants on my payroll in the past who made $100K+ mistakes if we hadn't caught them and fired the fuck out of those dumbasses. One was American and one was Filipino.