Please don't cheapen professional expertise in this way. The product is bad, yes, but why? Because the programming is bad, and the programmers are negligent.
> Anybody can string a couple of API calls together and write an "app". That is not programming
Yes it is. Simple as.
Please don't gatekeep something as casual as writing code. Good lord.
Casually writing code and writing code that securely handles customer data and maintains availability for something you're selling are two different things.