I'd guess that some of that is also that the majority of the "Any developer will do" companies are the ones who just laid off a ton of people because they had t

I'd guess that some of that is also that the majority of the "Any developer will do" companies are the ones who just laid off a ton of people because they had too many from strong hiring in the last couple years. We're less in a mode where I'm confident I could just reply to an Amazon recruiter and have a job within a week or two than we used to be. There's also a big difference between trying to get a job when the market is mostly people moving from one job to another for a pay raise, and when the market has a lot of people who were laid off and are now desperate. When you've got bills to pay, you're applying to anything that remotely fits. If there's a lot of people doing that, there's a lot more applications going out to every role than they may have been in a less desperate market.