Engineering is always boom/bust. Ask a retired aerospace engineer who got purged in the 90s. Technology always automates jobs away. I had a dedicated database

Engineering is always boom/bust. Ask a retired aerospace engineer who got purged in the 90s. Technology always automates jobs away. I had a dedicated database systems team 25 years ago that was larger than an infrastructure team managing 1000x more stuff today. Dev teams are bloated in most places, today.