I think the things the article describes don't necessarily make it harder to learn To program but it definitely isn't enjoyable at all to code in a modern environment where people have added dozens of dependencies and when things start to not work it is much more frustrating to figure out what these dozens of programs are doing. Many of them requiring reading a book to fully understand.. and if you're using third party software to save time I have to question what is really bring saved

I'm in the US, how do you find a work from home job that isn't clearly a scam and after that, how do you actually accomplish anything? Make up for time lost while sysadmins ignore you by working through meetings? (At least if you work for a mega corp)

I do interview, probably more than once a year on average. If I only had to work 20 hours a week or had 6 months off and worked from home I'd gladly take $50,000, let alone supposedly $200,000.

I do get tons of offers to interview but they are all clearly scams by recruiters.

I had a job where I would have cleared 6 figures easily by now, but I hated its location and ended up in a low prestige code monkey job when I left due to being naive. Now I'm back on track somewhere decent but I no longer have any enthusiasm for the profession.

Good for you, you're the exception and national income statistics show you're extremely above average.

It is extremely unlikely others will find your success.

Making simple apps isn't even that hard, I 100% believe some 16 year old could make one.

They could never make it secure and scalable without education and years of experience, but most successful apps will just hire people who can do that after finding success

I don't understand this coveted industry meme, coders are basically low prestige factory workers in 90% of cases.

You're lucky as a coder to get an ergonomic work area that won't destroy your body and to get to go home at 5.

You get to make no decisions of any importance, often receive no respect from decision makers who know absolutely nothing about how to develop software and are grossly underpaid compared to actual engineers, even if you have equivalent ability and education, because most places only want code monkeys.

Yes, there are a few jobs that are fantastic, but the factory worker code monkey jobs are far more prevalent.

Do yourself a favor and become a chemical, electrical, or mechanical engineer.. or a doctor or lawyer. Go into something actually prestigious.

If only people would realize this and ditch the mountains of crap...

Hardly nothing is needed that isn't built into modern environments, ass holes just add libraries because it is the fad of the month and are bored.