I take your point, but I think it depends on where you work. I used to be a "web developer", I still consider myself that (I don't particularly care what my tit

I take your point, but I think it depends on where you work. I used to be a "web developer", I still consider myself that (I don't particularly care what my title is tbh). When I started job hunting a few years back companies (in the UK) were advertising for "Software Engineers". I didn't want to sell myself as subpar so my job titles got rewritten on my CV to help market myself. At some point, the term "web developer" got associated with people just "messing around" with non-serious tech, scripted languages for example were seen as for people just starting out and not serious, whereas any serious "software engineer" would use OOP, design principles and frameworks. This is amongst people I worked with, so by no means a reflection of whole industry.