[anonymous41]

Expect this to get much worse as the profession is stripped of its remaining threads of prestige by the explosion of bootcamps and the supplanting of the terms "software developer/enginer/programmer" with "coder," one that equally well describes medical data entry clerks (no doubt the way many managers and spiteful journalists actually view us), if Google search results are an accurate representation.

Why expect professionalism from people who aren't treated like professionals and shown the respect that would normally be their due?

[apercu]

I agree, but we don;t always act like professionals either. People see development as a commodity because we treat ourselves and our product as a commodity. You don't see lawyers lining up to undercut each other - because that's a race to the bottom. We do see it in software development all the time.