The idea that you could just learn python and make an upper 5% salary in the first place was absolutely wild in the first place. I've been screaming at anyone who would listen for the last 2 decades that programming is a skilled trade and it's practitioners should be unionizing. This is more true than it ever was. It won't happen, the HN cadre will continue to turn up its nose at the idea until they are slowly incinerated by the roaring flame of capital exploitation.