I mostly agree with your point and I have a corollary around this part: > Simultaneously, a huge portion of the world saw tech salaries and wanted in on it so

I mostly agree with your point and I have a corollary around this part: > Simultaneously, a huge portion of the world saw tech salaries and wanted in on it so they started taking every quick certification, bootcamp, degree, etc to get into tech. In 2007-2017 the concept of "startup company" was also heavily romanticized, to the point it was almost toxic. I was in university in 2013 and pretty much anyone wanted to build a startup. More often than not it was non-tech people exploiting tech people into building MVPs. It was painful to see (and in a few cases, to experience). Don't even get me started on "apps". Every moron on the block had some kind of "idea for an app" and was completely clueless to how the app markets worked (let alone how to actually do that). Of course, being pretty much all amateurish at best, no single business plan was in sight.