Extended pool of engineers, as the field has grown, has diluted the quality of software. Post "Social Network" (the movie), and the economic downturn of 2008-2

Extended pool of engineers, as the field has grown, has diluted the quality of software. Post "Social Network" (the movie), and the economic downturn of 2008-2012 there is a new generation of engineers that started programming/entered the field because that's where the money is.... There is also proliferation of the code-academies, who often encourage trainees to create a 'github portfolio', often with low quality libraries. 2001 tech bust acted like a great filter. During the 2001-2012, a lot of people that remained in the field were there because general passion towards it, and had the skills to be employed after the bust. People that couldn't cut it, did leave the field. Hence, the software was often more of a work of passion, or craft. A lot of the open source libraries that we use today, were created during this times (and the 90s, for the databases, and Linux), also a lot of the culture of startups (good and bad), was cemented during this time. I think the field massively expanded after 2012, and people started doing engineering because that's where the money was/became trendy. Hence you will naturally have a dilution of overall quality.