I don’t think there is any indication that licensing requirements developers would improve software quality. There are countries and industries (banking) where

I don’t think there is any indication that licensing requirements developers would improve software quality. There are countries and industries (banking) where a far greater share of job adverts ask for a degree. They make some of the shoddiest software I have ever seen. Most quality issues are down to economic constraints and priorities. It’s not hard to hire cheap degree qualified devs and set the deadlines so tightly that only garbage can ever come out of it. Most terrible software I have seen is terrible because no one cares to make it better. Let’s not forget that historically a lot of licensing restrictions had more to do with protectionism and gatekeeping than with quality. Most countries have a long list of absolutely laughable restrictions that are justified by ridiculous claims about quality control. I think where quality is an absolute requirement, it’s the software itself that should be inspected and licensed, not the developers. After all, users rely on software, not on degrees.