Maybe I'm misunderstanding you but I believe I'd disagree with your first point on the perceived lower skill roles with higher design / creative requirements. I

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you but I believe I'd disagree with your first point on the perceived lower skill roles with higher design / creative requirements. I've seen a lot of the software industry being software factories rather than something closer to craftsmanship or even proper ABET-style engineering and AI is indeed better than the manually written slop that was encouraged in low-creativity / low-innovation environments such as QA and a lot of infrastructure engineering like defining CI pipelines. It seems reminiscent of the waves that hit industries like coal mining and manufacturing in the US except at a much faster rate and with different driving and resisting forces in automation. Programmer / engineer compensation in the US market at least has been looking bimodal for at least 12 years now and the first one looks even more devastated in terms of labor than the big tech companies based upon (lack of) job postings and from browsing my connections on LinkedIn.