All irony about the source of the article aside, I think that they are missing a demographic shift that underlies the topic: Just as people are calling themsel

All irony about the source of the article aside, I think that they are missing a demographic shift that underlies the topic: Just as people are calling themselves CEOs and entrepreneurs without much actual business experience, likewise are people calling themselves designers just because they know HTML/CSS enough to create a web page. And applying those labels to yourself is fine -- they are technically accurate. But in the past, there was an implied level of the depth of expertise in a field before one would claim such labels. What we have lost is not the expertise. There are still designers with very deep knowledge of the art, who apply is very effectively. I'd even guess that there are more of them than in the past. But they are overshadowed by the inexperienced designers who claim the same title.