And most software products are just skins around databases. What's your point? This notion that some development should be considered "high tech" while other

And most software products are just skins around databases. What's your point? This notion that some development should be considered "high tech" while other development should be considered "low tech" is one that bothers me, both for its elitism and for its simplemindedness. Yes, the skills needed to make a pretty CRUD app may be "lower tech" than the skills needed for someone to master, say, machine learning. But there are also many University professors doing work considered "high tech" who couldn't practically architect or code a basic application to save their lives. Meanwhile you have CRUD app developers contributing to frameworks that powerfully advance productivity being looked down upon because they only work in "kiddie languages" like Ruby or Javascript. Their work, even when it produces very high value appreciated by millions, is looked down upon as little more than copy-and-paste coding -- with zero appreciation given to how long it takes to develop the heuristics to do this kind of work well. I don't think this attitude is healthy. A more healthy attitude would be to recognize that value can be created in different ways.