If you were an electric utility recruiter hiring temps to work on power lines; which would you rather hire? The ones who are wary of electricity or the ones who are not? Now, if you were recruiting a midsize business IT Manager or CIO and asked applicants whether they are wary of custom code, which would you hire? The one who loves coding or the one who dreads it?
Let us answer with a question. If you wanted to build a house, would you first ask yourself: "How can I build a saw or a hammer?"
All the tools to build a house already exist because everybody needs a house.
The real question is - "How can I build the best and safest house with the smartest tools at the best cost?"
Unless you are in the tooling business or a manufacturer, you do not need to know how to make tools.
Unless you sell code, or need particular code for your niche industry or resources in your website, you do not need to write code. Not only is superfluous code a waste of time and money but it is also a liability - another thing that can break down or break things, another time bomb.
Beware of custom code as you would of custom hammers. They are of no use to builders and homeowners.