This is something that I can’t show numbers for but it seems likely that the absolute number of jobs of people who do “build software” has likely increased with

This is something that I can’t show numbers for but it seems likely that the absolute number of jobs of people who do “build software” has likely increased with time, it’s just that the number of “glueing frameworks” jobs have increased by a lot more so you’re probably just in the wrong category. It seems difficult to think that there aren’t thousands of network engineers keeping the internet backbone humming along.