> programming in general is waaaaaay bigger than what the book covers.

It's way bigger than any book covers. Clean Code has some useful things, but if anyone actually reads chapter 1 they'd see that Martin even addresses the idea that you should not just read Clean Code and use it alone, or even entirely. It's a collection of one person's judgements (some good, some bad), just like all the other books like it.

you realize reading books isn't a zero-sum game right? I can still read more books, it didn't end with Clean Code