Yes the landscape for programming jobs has changed a lot. I still work as a programmer and system admin. I think employers miss out on developing and keeping go

Yes the landscape for programming jobs has changed a lot. I still work as a programmer and system admin. I think employers miss out on developing and keeping good people by not offering a career path for enthusiastic beginners. No training, no mentoring, hit the ground running. And then they complain that people don't show any loyalty to the employer. My first job was with Nike, junior programmer brought on as a contractor with a big crowd of other young programmers looking to get training and experience. We got access to training and assigned two mentors. After two months we either got offered full-time jobs or let go. IT/software development didn't exist as a separate division in big companies back then. I worked in inventory/logistics, so I learned a lot about that business domain along with the programming stuff (DECSystem 20 BASIC, Fortran, COBOL, assembly language). That was a great opportunity to launch my career, and I met some great people there. Decades later one of my former Nike mentors hired me at a software company he had started up.