This comment is hilariously shortsighted.

Ten years later: >> "Guys were being paid $100/hour to get CRUD working through a web framework."

People weren't being paid to write HTML. They were being paid to publish information on the Internet for the first time ever. Like, before W3 schools and NodeJS. Like, back when you got your morning news from the paperboy.

If typesetters were paid a dime back in the 1700s, anyone who could design a webpage in the 90s was certainly worth their weight in gold.

And with time, one day your job will also be super unflattering to talk about.