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> Since then, I feel like I'm just a replaceable worker in an industry that now just employs me/pays me well because we are in the middle of a tech bubble that will inevitably end

The first thing that is cut isn't the engineer keeping the website running. It's the data scientist running an experiment on whether or not moving pixels on the screen will improve conversion - because it doesn't matter if there's no one to implement it.