Isn&#x27;t that because that entire area of work (Wordpress blogs&#x2F;basic websites&#x2F;basic webfronts&#x2F;etc) has been supplanted by Squarespace and all? Web documentation and tools have also gotten <i>vastly</i> better in the past few years, thereby allowing more people to get into the web industry, which then leads to a glut of supply while demand remains the same. I can hammer out a semi-functional webapp in a weekend now with backend in Meteor with a UI in React, whereas if I wanted to do this ~5 years ago I probably would&#x27;ve been stuck writing my own UI on top of Rails. Your article frames it as a bad thing, and I&#x27;m not sure it is a bad thing, it just means that demand has shifted to higher, more specialized web developers.