I'm not buying it. Just as MS Office didn't reduce admin work, but instead created whole new categories of busywork for executives to do, so new software frameworks are mostly just increasing the complexity of the overengineered solutions we create to address what are really just simple CRUD interface problems in the majority of cases. If only classic ASP in VBScript was still being security patched, I guarantee you the majority of web apps could be written in that to be so much faster and more responsive than any of these "modern javascript" front ends that have to make 78 different API calls across a fleet of microservices just to show part of a database table on a page... after the user has sat looking at some dumb spinning beach ball for 5-8 seconds. Naturally, you could maintain that shit with only one or two developers instead of the rooms full of fullstack devops rockstars that it takes to build even the most basic thing these days. Without a kubernetes cluster in sight. But as long as our entire industry continues to throw away basic architectural and performance principles in favour of embracing the new hotness, your jobs are safe. Enjoy the busywork, folks, and let's continue creating additional layers of abstraction and indirection to ensure the next generation requires even more armies of developers just to say "Hello, world."