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> But it seems my field of work, the web or the tech industry more generally, has a bad notoriety in the eyes of most people.

It may be related to the products people use. Since 10 years the Software enginerring is going backwards and instead of improving things they only make the user angry. It seems that the last years were only use to improve on the pallete of dark patterns for the user. I have a lot of colleagues which are very good software engineers but when i look at Windows/Office/Teams/Android/KDE/Gnome/Systemd/Pulseaudio i really wonder who pays such people and how much engineering is in their work. Web developers are special. I wonder where they find ideas and if they ever saw a computer interface before (hamburger on the left or on the right ?, very big fonts or very small ?, a lot of wasted space, no way to print a webpage, no way to zoom the page, want to select text ? forget it, no toolbars, toolbars which change shape , toolbars with no begin and end handles because everybody has a touchscreen even on win 10 and so on and so forth).