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In the 2000's you had people getting paid 6-figure salaries to just "program" in HTML, that was, of course, before the dotcom bubble burst. This seems to be a modern response to the same kind of developer that's been popping up for the last 10 years, all the fuss over the newest shiny tools will never replace good fundamentals, and most of this fear comes from the fact that people know their fancy frontends/APIs are glorified glue code in messy codebases. There are still systems today that'll require knowledgeable people to maintain for decades to come. The MS Word example is the best part because it'll reduce my free IT consultancy to parents/friends.

Look at your work as a craft, invest time into getting incrementally better and you shall know no fear.