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Yes, a coding architect might work (and is indeed orders of magnitude better than an architect who has no clue about the code), but a knowledge-sharing architect will generally work better.

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As a nice side effect, the very same knowledge sharing weakens a dependency on the architect (and reducing any dependency on a specific person is a Universally Good Thing™).

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The reasons for rebellious behavior vary, and are not necessarily selfish

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You will have an architect (formal, informal, collective...) pretty much no matter what you’re doing.

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Hey folks, it is a Writer application, where most of the work is done (surprise!) with a keyboard, and moving a hand from keyboard to mouse for such a routine task is a waste of time.

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In any project which has UI (and has more than 1 or 2 developers), you do need somebody to advocate end-user interests.

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If you think you don’t need a testing team – think again

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Never ever position testers as inferior to developers. First, they are not inferior. Second, it will hurt the process badly.