> The problem is that only a fraction of software developer have the ability/skills to work on the hard problems. A much larger percentage will only be able to work on things like CRUD apps and grunt work.

It's also availability of those jobs, even for those who would otherwise be capable.

Some of the highest-skill software jobs, things like writing a cross-platform renderer for a AAA game engine, or JIT compiler optimizations or something else esoteric are very scant jobs and only ever needed in very small quantities at very specific places.

The overwhelming majority of work is some variety of CRUD with a website, and all of the "supporting cast" (CI/CD things, cloud stuff, etc).

Ironically this is why LLMs are so successful at automating it, how many React repos are there on GitHub?