> Marketing is fundamentally opposed to programming, because of the people/things or empathizer/systematizer dichotomy.
I don't understand what you mean here. You are saying that different skill sets are needed to succeed in marketing vs. programming? If so, shocker lol. Different fields require different skills. This doesn't mean that they are in opposition to each other.
> You need to empathise with people in a broad sense
This is true of every job. If you lack empathy you'll never be as good at your job as you think you are.