[alephnerd]

> But seems outsourcing to outside-US has only increased?

In addition to u/gamblor956's answer, for companies that are outsourcing, these decisions aren't only driven by price considerations - distributing teams to deliver in parallel does speed up delivery. And for a lot of subfields in software, the talent pipeline doesn't exist anymore in the US (eg. anything Systems adjacent).

And finally, the layoffs that happened during COVID and in 2023-24 overimpacted workers on visa statuses like H1B, EB1/2, etc, so you had a pretty decent chunk of American trained engineering, product, and marketing talent abroad now who can act as interlocutors between American companies and local talent.