Been that way for more than a decade(at least since I was looking to get into the industry around '00 or so).

Problem is there's a thousand young devs out there trying to bang down the doors to get in. In that situation I don't see how you have effective leverage.

With things as it stands today there's a good ~50-60% churn in the industry and things seem to keep rolling on(although I wonder what improvements we'd see with better working hours and improved pay WRT other dev domains).