This may sound elitist, but it is just the contrary. We are systematically raising the bar to those who wish to join our industry. As a result, a mass of (apparently) highly skilled workers, some of those eager to explore the frontiers of human knowledge, is now responsible for the conduction of less exciting chores.
__Provided we make sure that those with no academic degrees can be offered dignified work conditions__, that must go.
You don't have an Electrical Engineer do you home's wiring.
You don't have a Mechanical Engineer fix your car's fuel injection system.
You don't have a Civil Engineer lay bricks on a construction site.
Is that the sole reason those industries seem extremely mature in comparison to the software industry? Honestly, I don't know, but it is certainly an indicator. The artifacts they produce, and their body of knowledge, is so reliable and powerful that everyone could attend a six-month course on it and make a decent living afterwards.