I'm framing that statement in perspective to almost all other imaginable fields of work. I'll concede that it may not be the cause for all the bad developers --

I'm framing that statement in perspective to almost all other imaginable fields of work. I'll concede that it may not be the cause for all the bad developers -- low barrier to entry seems like a much more likely cause, but I do not believe that this field has matured yet. Almost no one on the planet was selling web development services just 18 years ago, so it stands to reason that the field is not very mature yet. At least in my opinion.