[newsoftheday]

>it's probably not a great time to be a very middling pure CRUD web app developer

Businesses don't pay for CRUD apps, businesses pay for apps that solve problems which often involves CRUD to persist their valuable data. This is often within the sometimes very strange and difficult to understand business logic which varies greatly from one business to another. That is what "CRUD app developers" actually do, so dismissing them as though there is zero business logic and only CRUD is doing them, us, a disservice.

[abalashov]

I really wasn't referring to domain-specific CRUD development of that sort, and tried to draw attention to the distinction with the word "middling", but perhaps it was a bit too subtle.

Why, I do plenty of what you describe myself...