[pingyong]

1. There's a lot more demand for simple web apps/interfaces in areas where there are potentially absolutely insane gains to be had from very simple automation.^1

2. Most devs I know at least consider writing simple web apps/interfaces as the most boring work you could possibly do.

^1 (I've seen 1000+ employee companies with workflows that include multiple people simply sorting and searching through data in hundreds or thousands of files manually, something that any PHP or Javascript script would be able to do in seconds. One time they simply didn't have an interface between two apps and there was someone who's entire job was essentially to type the data from one app into the other. A motivated high schooler would have been able to write something that would have saved 4000-6000 hours of work per year. These kinds of insanely low effort automation opportunities simply don't tend to exist in embedded areas, and it will probably take at least 10 years before most of them are gone from small to medium sized businesses.)