""I'm still waiting for someone to completely eliminate the need for a software engineer and charge a reasonable flat fee to bolt together some libraries and ha

""I'm still waiting for someone to completely eliminate the need for a software engineer and charge a reasonable flat fee to bolt together some libraries and handle all the related details." That can be done (and is done) for cookie-cutter projects such as websites. A company I consulted for offers 600 dollar CMS websites, no extra fees. I've also paid amazingly low prices for other kind of "bolt-library-together" projects. A lot of companies do overpay, but there's also a lot of variance between projects.