As a software engineer, I've heard that there is a shortage of people like me my whole career. I've never thought of that as assigning fault to either engineer

As a software engineer, I've heard that there is a shortage of people like me my whole career. I've never thought of that as assigning fault to either engineers or employers. More how non economists describe demand being stronger than supply. If that is how some people are actually reading it, I understand the confrontational responses more, though!