> Just continue the thought: if CRUD is so easy, but money can be made then it will be automated away by frameworks or even commercial products. So less people will be needed and hence people will lose their jobs.
CRUD are just the basic backend operations for persisting data and frameworks provide the facilities to make this happen. Processing web forms via CRUD operations is just a subset of backend development. Companies hire software engineers to solve domain problems which are unique to the company and/or industry. Eventually things will get automated away where they can but there will always be new domain problems to work on for the foreseeable future.
> 25 years ago, you could earn a lot of money by simply creating basic websites for people. This has become much easier/faster to do now, but making a lot of money with it has gotten much harder as well.
No, 25 years ago no one was making money designing websites. In the late nineties, web sites were often just cobbled together by whomever in the company took an interest in the new medium. Also, aside from some outliers perhaps, no one was making the kind of salaries engineers can get these days.
CRUD are just the basic backend operations for persisting data and frameworks provide the facilities to make this happen. Processing web forms via CRUD operations is just a subset of backend development. Companies hire software engineers to solve domain problems which are unique to the company and/or industry. Eventually things will get automated away where they can but there will always be new domain problems to work on for the foreseeable future.
> 25 years ago, you could earn a lot of money by simply creating basic websites for people. This has become much easier/faster to do now, but making a lot of money with it has gotten much harder as well.
No, 25 years ago no one was making money designing websites. In the late nineties, web sites were often just cobbled together by whomever in the company took an interest in the new medium. Also, aside from some outliers perhaps, no one was making the kind of salaries engineers can get these days.