It is. Before becoming a sysadmin I was a lawyer for 12 years. Never had trouble with interruptions while on my feet in court (except for my adversary, or the judge), but it was a real problem when drafting contracts or auditing complex estate accounts. Sure, you could multitask easily in a real estate closing or a trial settlement conference. But a lot of the work required shutting the private office door and asking the staff to "hold all calls". To be fair, sysadmin work was a lot less stressful and more rewarding -- except when it came time to write or debug code. That, and troubleshooting WebLogic services, Apache threads, the network team's firewall rules or database performance.

The real problem is that, culturally, most people aren't ready to accept software development as a high wire, professional, activity. That still would disturb this fantasy they have about tech being "intuitive" or managable in any meaningful way for non-experts. Those of us on the inside know that's b.s.