[paulpauper]

As someone who has done coding and hired coders, things that seem simple can be deceptively hard. Even the simplest stuff can take forever to figure out, things like caching. It's not that irrational it costs so much. How many people can code well? Very few due to cognitive barriers to entry, yet it's a very highly economically valued skill (top 5 tech companies worth trillions). Many more people can learn how to do plumbing, hence more supply, but less economic value although plumbers are important.