> Software and their UI got a lot more complex and require more expertise.
In the B2C space sometimes sure. We do business with many companies all over the world and if you can see the 100s of 1000s of apps they are using; you could've done all of them with Delphi/VB without any tricks. Except now some incapable but suave talking Nextjs fanboi walked in and pushed all that overly complex nonsense while it's not needed for almost anything we see used in companies. Spending fortunes on stuff you should just click together in a few minutes and hook up a db. But yeah, we make nice money because of it for both of my main businesses; 1) fixing completely broken stuff because the person who introduced the tech left quickly after introducing the misery 2) creating LoB/ERP custom applications. Both are goldmines and both are goldmines because of the tech losers (resume driven 'workers' almost always) around the world who preach to always use the 'best tool for the job' and then completely do the opposite, introducing tools that really have no place there, ever.
And then the joke of course that they are not even really good at them, which is the worst pet peeve of mine; ONLY yesterday, I was virtually (via Teamviewer) fixing a new LoB app made by 2 freelancers who came (apparently) highly recommended; it was made in Next 15 with React 18 and shadcn (that's not fully compatible yet... but that's normal in that ecosystem; nothing is). So I checked the Linkedin / github's of these freelancers and had a short call with them if they could help (no, they had no time; new clients!); they were Django/Bootstrap guys before, but that sells less well than Nextjs/shadcn/tailwind, so they switched recently. What a joke. Why is this not liable really... But again, we make very good money, so please carry on!
In the B2C space sometimes sure. We do business with many companies all over the world and if you can see the 100s of 1000s of apps they are using; you could've done all of them with Delphi/VB without any tricks. Except now some incapable but suave talking Nextjs fanboi walked in and pushed all that overly complex nonsense while it's not needed for almost anything we see used in companies. Spending fortunes on stuff you should just click together in a few minutes and hook up a db. But yeah, we make nice money because of it for both of my main businesses; 1) fixing completely broken stuff because the person who introduced the tech left quickly after introducing the misery 2) creating LoB/ERP custom applications. Both are goldmines and both are goldmines because of the tech losers (resume driven 'workers' almost always) around the world who preach to always use the 'best tool for the job' and then completely do the opposite, introducing tools that really have no place there, ever.
And then the joke of course that they are not even really good at them, which is the worst pet peeve of mine; ONLY yesterday, I was virtually (via Teamviewer) fixing a new LoB app made by 2 freelancers who came (apparently) highly recommended; it was made in Next 15 with React 18 and shadcn (that's not fully compatible yet... but that's normal in that ecosystem; nothing is). So I checked the Linkedin / github's of these freelancers and had a short call with them if they could help (no, they had no time; new clients!); they were Django/Bootstrap guys before, but that sells less well than Nextjs/shadcn/tailwind, so they switched recently. What a joke. Why is this not liable really... But again, we make very good money, so please carry on!