Problem is only idiotic brainless Indian “programmers” who just copy-paste code are the ones getting hired at present. Seems decent American programmers are stuck in the computer games industry or stuck
unemployed. Even here, if you don’t have a few AAA titles currently under your belt, you won’t get an interview. This is the only niche where Indian by-rote copy-pasting isn’t useful.
Starcitizen eh? Check out embedded systems programming (consumer electronics, that sort of thing) that’s where i shifted after my stint in games programming. You have the same people attempting to get jobs there but they fail miserably.
That got parlayed into cloud programming is a similar issue - they can copy and paste the java and python - but they don’t understand how the cloud pieces fit together or how to do it cheaply and efficiently.