[kwatsonafter]

This is, "why all the elves have left Middle Earth;" The software industry is just about the only industry where a basically smart person can work and end up making as much as a doctor or lawyer. This results in power law/pareto distributions of talent. Due to the fact that 80-90% of the workforce is technically incompetent from a, "went to school and learned vetted skills and disciplined critical thinking" perspective you end up with a kind of paradox where-in innovation is stifled through toxic democratization. Creative genius doesn't manifest, "good employees." Sorry.

Consider that he might be right from his perspective; he's probably just a douchebag. Either/or (remembering dear Kirkegaard and saintly James) this is partially and mostly why computers suck in 2022, Google doesn't work anymore, and user interface design is suffering as there aren't enough people with cross-sectional culture skills (consider Brenda Laurel: PhD in Theatre; Alan Kay was a competent jazz guitarist before Xerox PARC) + necessary computing expertise to design useable software and as a result our technical infrastructure has suffered immensely despite gains made from Moore's Law and data collection (I'm looking at you ML geeks)

This is going to get worse before it gets better.