The Software Industry is headed off a cliff. People who actually take care of the low-level plumbing are not being incentivized nor given their due. Expertise

The Software Industry is headed off a cliff. People who actually take care of the low-level plumbing are not being incentivized nor given their due. Expertise and Hard-won knowledge is being lost. There is also not much ground-breaking research going on in these domains which doesn't bode well for the future. As a final nail in the coffin, Colleges/Universities are not even creating/training the next generation of "Low-Level System Engineers". We are going to end-up with a handful of Companies holding the keys to the kingdom and holding Society-at-large hostage.