[pointernil]

Okay, pure anecdotal but: exactly the same "complaint" including exactly the same advice (minus the "web" ) could be found some 20 years ago. Not only it seems the field is not "structurally" changing much, it seems people are people, still ;) ... and "CRUD" moved to the web.

[alkonaut]

Yes there has always been demand for what today is the archetypical web app. Data input. Data washing, data into DB, data out of DB data presentation. Basically the same CRUD we do in webapps, but just a DOS interface, VisualBasic form... That's what you don't want to do.