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1. Yeah, people seem to be copy-pasting incoherent difficult-to-read stuff everywhere.

2. No seriously though - what you've written touches on CS and completely ignores designing programs. You can be great at CS and still write crappy programs.

3. Though it's unlikely to have an industry-specific crash, recessions are inevitable and then people (competent or not) lose their jobs.

4. I guess my whole point is - even if these thing were true, so what? Each individual person has the choice to go into whichever field they like. Each person is also free to spend as much time and effort as they want on improving their CS and software-engineering skills. This knowledge isn't somehow exclusive to degree holders - there are so many free resources on CS and SWE. And as I mentioned, the degree doesn't guarantee that you'll be able to create good software.