There is nobody else who could have written good code, except developers. There is nobody else who kept rewriting X-Screensaver clones insecurely for 17 years[1] except developers. Nobody else who has knowledge or experience to standardise on tools for the greater good. There is nobody else who wrote Jira but developers. There is nobody else who only wants to do Electron, or who refuses things like UAC because security is fine on their OpenBSD ThinkPad.
Reddit blames capitalism, HN blames managmenent, 4chan blames 'Pajeet' Indian stereotype, Slashdot blames Microsoft, very few developers take a look in the mirror and say things like "we need less powerful languages"[2] or "ignore the firehose of new technologies"[3] or "If I want to ship my software, as opposed to just write it, I need to use tech that's a couple of clicks back from "bleeding edge," and spend a lot of time, "polishing the fenders. B O R I N G [but I do it]"[4].
Civil engineers have legal duties and responsibilities to make sure the things they build are fit for purpose and sign off on them before they get deployed, and can be personally fined or imprisoned or lose licenses if they weren't fit for purpose.
Want to make a text editor at home? Knock yourself out, pick any language you want, dabble all you like. Want to make something that handles millions of people's data, sign your name to it and put your professional reputation on the line before every release. And it may well make salaries go up for the people willing and able to do that. The world runs on a lot more code than buildings these days and professional developers with bleeding edge MacBooks Pro and six figure salaries complaining that all the software we all suffer under is shitty, is like civil engineers complaining that buildings fall down and it's all management's fault for demanding blueprints before construction and inspections during construction to try and stop the company buildings falling down so often, ugh all that red tape, can't we still use wattle and daub it works fine on my garden shed.
[Edit: just seen[5] comment from "Jon" "if you think 'function will crash if given invalid parameters' is a "defect" you should switch to Java". Nice sneer, right?]
[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/01/i-told-you-so-2021-edition/
[2] https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/less-powerful-languages/
[3] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/
[4] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
[5] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8477965/is-kr-c-still-ap... comment from "Jon"
