IT people refuse to accept that IT - as a discipline - has become just another commodity. As an ancillary skill for tactical use by professionals in other fields, it still has value. As a career specialty, most IT work has become too commoditized to pay enough to support an educated American.
If you just code, yes.
But the key is to be a coder who is also a business analyst and project manager. Companies pretty much have streamlined where now it’s expected a coder to wear many hats. And that’s where differentiation comes in.
Globalists like will rot in hell one day.