The modeler who can write code unlike you will get hired first.
Okay, now that I said the provocative thing to kind of drive home how real and serious this point is, I will say that I am not a statistician, but I run more computational physics simulations, so less statistical modelling but modelling of experiments and systems based on the PDEs. The one thing I observe is that there really is only this patience for this lack of understanding your own tools for theorists. Experimentalists can fix their own tools, they can open up the casing and resolder the boards if they need to, heck most of them can fix their own cars. But you have no idea how many computational scientists just load up Lumerical or Ansys and just click around but really have no concept or idea how it works under the hood beyond just things they show on intro slides to talks. Some know how to script say Meep or something if they're good but they've never implemented a DE solver themselves unless it was in a class in college or first year grad school then they forgot it all.
You really only have this disconnect from your own tools for theorists. Programming is your breadboard, your substrate. Code is the material you use to do your work. I don't understand why it is okay for theorists of all stripes to slide on never really understanding how their on research actually works on a computer whereas every experimentalist I've ever known could recreate their entire experimental apparatus from scratch if they were paid to do so. But that's okay, because that means as long as too many theorists can only write equations and then have to have someone to hand hold them so they actually do the things they've written down, I will be valuable and have job opportunities for myself. It would however make life easier for myself and lessen the many headaches I've been subject to, and heck, may be science could move forward a little better, yadda yadda.
I probably shouldn't encourage my competition like that especially when they're injuring themselves but that "move science forward and lessen my headaches" vibe does make me want to share the sentiment so that theorists at least understood on some level how the libraries they import work sometimes.