[mcraenich]

What can be done with software is pretty immense now, but I think we tend to underestimate how much code being written in the industry is aimed at the maintenance of applications with only mild to moderate complexity.

If you're a decent generalist, maintenance of pretty much anything isn't that hard unless you're jumping into something low level like C++.

Architecture / building major applications from the ground up is harder, but this isn't that common of a task, and if you're building something mission critical and important, odds are you have a team. Or at least you should.