On the topic of web dev: I have a Full HD 27" monitor (1993.25 sq cm area), and the title of this article takes up 1197 sq cm...

It's also pretty damaging for the health of small businesses when they need to pay thousands to webdevs.

We don't consciously think about every heartbeat or work out how all the light in the spectrum creates vision. Some things are best left solved. Paying hundreds of thousands people in an economy to be CSS masters is just wasteful. It's solved. Move on.

Tech experts have been quick to automate away other people's professions. The boot's now on the other foot.

Really enjoyed this article, I like your writing style.

Re: your pro-specialist argument -

"Specialists cost more because you either need to pay more to hire them, or you need to pay for the time it takes for somebody to become a specialist. But the productivity improvements should more than outweigh the cost."

Here lies the problem. I'm not sure the productivity improvements do outweigh the cost according to the metrics businesses track and care about. the benefit to customer experience or the structural integrity of the software outweighs the cost, but that's not something business leaders are incentivized to care about in a meaningful way.

the market for artisan software is just too small

Full title: The deskilling of web dev is harming the product but, more importantly, it's damaging our health – this is why burnout happens

Truth be told, these days one can't really hope to succeed in life doing any jobs that involve delivering stuff that goes through the screen. Time to move on.

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