Software Engineering is one of the few disciplines in which most "engineers" are anything but.

In other engineering fields, one typically goes to college and learns fundamentals, math, science, and so on. And once you've done that, you frequently need to become certified in your field.

But in software, people for some reason seem to think they can take a bootcamp and then spend a month or so fiddling with HTML, CSS, and a Javascript framework...

And that they're then somehow worth hiring.

Web development is the poster boy for this mindset. It's relatively easy to pick up and produce some sort of result.

But that also means it's the low-hanging fruit.