A mellifluous mêlée

Does it get your goat when a writer begins an opinion piece by writing, "As a writer,  …"?

Well, as a goatherd*, I'd just like to ask what exactly is it supposed to mean when someone writes, "as a writer"? Mr Hitler was a writer, among other things, as were Mr Zedong, Mr Gibran, Ms Blyton, Mr Twain and –, well you can make your own endless list of writers with wildly different outlooks and agendas, which will unavoidably be incomplete because you will not be able to include all the people who ...