I think it is artificially inflated. The web took off to such a degree that that is where all the high paying jobs were. So people came over from other places a

I think it is artificially inflated. The web took off to such a degree that that is where all the high paying jobs were. So people came over from other places and brought their complexity with them and imposed it on web development. The fact that you now have to have a build system to create a website is like something taken straight from application development.