> A lot of development jobs can be simplified into a web endpoint that hits a database.

This doesn't ring right. It might (maybe) be educational to do this, but I'd say that any "development job" that is about software development is not trivial like you say.

An "endpoint-to-database" job doesn't exist [1] - I think you're making a simplification here and the real argument is if its educational.

[1] find a job description that says REST or GQL endpoint directly to database, and doesn't have a long wishlist of other skills, experience, or design - I'll gladly take 100 of those and be on my merry way (!)