I agree, I left software dev 10 years ago. The previous 3 decades were a golden age - we went from working with wild-west code and flat files to modular programming and databases, then object-oriented programming, then the web came along and brought another wild-west period, then came millions of packages and frameworks du jour. A giant wave of all that was just curling overhead when I left, but hadn't crashed down yet. Now if your web page with a button on it doesn't use 47 libraries you're not a software engineer lol.