Auto mechanics are in much greater supply than and make a much smaller salary than software engineers, and repair/diagnostic work is much different than the des

Auto mechanics are in much greater supply than and make a much smaller salary than software engineers, and repair/diagnostic work is much different than the design work that seems to be less and less of my job. We're more and more in a place where we're just stringing together other people's rent-seeking SaaS services and putting up with all the resulting bullshit, rather than actively making our lives as developers easier by making stuff that results in less work. That, and our employers are taking 99% of the value we create, when that figure should be closer to 90%