The more I read, experience, see, the more I understand just how little of an idea I have about how the world works, or how human beings function.
Today I encountered an article on Medium titled "Just write?" in which the author basically talks about the people who call themselves "writers" simply because they can put sentences together. But if that would've been all of it, I would've agreed. Instead, he continues to talk about what it means to be a writer, what kind of work and dedication must go into it, that you must be at least conversant in the rules of grammar before you can even give yourself the title of "writer", and so on.
I disagree with many points he makes. I'm not going to discuss them all, because I consider it a waste of my time, which is why I added a link to the post so that you can read it yourself.
A little bit of humbleness might be good for the author. A bit of understanding, that in order to be a writer, you must not become one of the best, could also help. You must not be in the same league as the great ones, nor to have that as your final goal. Not everyone wishes to dedicate their life to this activity.
I've encountered this type of thinking before, especially in the art world. People saying things such as "If you draw digitally then you're not a real artist" or "You cannot call yourself an artist if you don't know everything there is to know about composition and anatomy and lighting and this and that".
What do I know about what exactly it takes to be a writer? What does he know? Who am I, or who is he, to decide who is and who isn't a writer, or who can call themselves to be something, as long as they are practicing a particular activity?
This type of "purism" is the same I've seen online in other areas. One of the best examples was in gaming, especially in some online video games such as Path of Exile. Part of the community becomes so elitist, so obsessed with the "meta", with getting the highest numbers, the best builds, the best stats, that they shame and make fun of every new player who tries anything different and who doesn't immediately follow what the "experts" do. Then the same people are wondering why everyone is leaving the game, and why their game eventually dies due to not having enough players.
If you're at such a high level that you can say, with enough confidence, that you're a professional, an expert, that you know more than those who practice what you consider a vocation, then educate people, and show them ways in which to evolve and to grow. Don't mock people who enthusiastically call themselves writers or designers or artists because they can be active within those fields, discouraging them and eventually making them quit because they feel inferior and unfit in the eyes of the expert that maybe they admire.
If you wish to write, then write. If you wish to draw, then draw. If you wish to create, then create. Leave the arrogant experts to their frustrations and what they consider to be "the right way of doing this or that" and just continue to do what you do.