What you're touching on is a change in dev in general, especially in certain parts of the stack (like much of front-end). That is, devs have become more assem

What you're touching on is a change in dev in general, especially in certain parts of the stack (like much of front-end). That is, devs have become more assemblers than coders. I think this is due to the explosion in OSS, with all of the libs, frameworks, etc. On balance, I believe it's made us more productive, but the time spent writing logic has gone down vs. the time spent learning, assembling, integrating, etc. So, devs are expected to keep up on all of the latest tech, tooling, etc. Of course, the demands of agile development just pours gasoline on it.