This sort of thing is weird to me. I don't have a problem with these services, but the whole "this changes everything" meme has got to stop. We've been through

This sort of thing is weird to me. I don't have a problem with these services, but the whole "this changes everything" meme has got to stop. We've been through this every decade since, I imagine, the printing press. We still have designers, people still pay them, etc. People who don't appreciate or need designers insist that this makes them obsolete; they're almost certainly wrong. I suspect that no one who says this sort of thing would actually hire a designer unless absolutely forced to. 99designs, et al simply replace the hapless employee whose incidental knowledge of graphic software would have otherwise put him in the uncomfortable position of building the website. It likely also saves some GD an annoying round of emails that go nowhere. Both are thankful. Neither are hurt.