The writing has been on the wall for at least a decade. I remember hearing about how programmers would be more like plumbers all the way back in 2008. Sure enou

The writing has been on the wall for at least a decade. I remember hearing about how programmers would be more like plumbers all the way back in 2008. Sure enough, that really has come true for a lot of developers. But I agree that this is good. The job is just changing. For example, maybe you wrote a custom DAL back in 2010. Now what you likely have is a mess that you have to pay several people a senior salary for because they are the only ones who understand how it works. Meanwhile a general purpose plug and play solution like entity framework is ubiquitously understood among .net developers. So now we don't need those "senior" DAL guys simply because they understand the mess they helped create a decade ago (also, about the last time they read any books). I see it as more a levels of software development thing. low-level > medium-level > high-level > plumbing.