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Eh, I also think a lot of people overengineer things that are made simple with recent technology and that in fact most companies don't need the best engineers to get their job done.

I think it's totally true that one can leverage new tools to get more work done with less people, especially when it's for a service that doesn't reach scale and what not. Most companies don't need that to be lucrative. But I think the space of problems expands, whether that is more fields valuing tech, feasible complexity increasing in others, or competition just ratcheting up by lowering technical barriers to entry.