Software architects are developers in a past life who don't want to do any real work anymore. They never really liked coding and they're certainly not getting their hands dirty.
That's like saying developers are people who write buggy software for job security. All they like to do is play around with the latest toys and they always make the project late. Those are bad developers.
Good software architects make the entire team more productive, the entire product (or family of products) more cohesive, and make future change easier.
