I agree. I don't wish to sound overly unkind to an entire discipline here, but I think in recent years there has arisen a perception that UX is a job which pays well and doesn't require any particularly hard skills: software development involves programming which is plainly quite challenging (and maybe requires being good at maths), design is very subjective, brutal (client feedback can be soul-crushing) and often laborious, but UX is this nice fuzzy domain that anyone with an interest in the web and apps can launch themselves into without much prior training or experience.

At least, I've spoken to a few people who feel like that. And I've worked with quite a number of UX people who didn't really seem to have any skills I could easily discern as being useful (but definitely could produce reams of wireframes that made absolutely no sense whatsoever - I remember one hapless UXer who made 10 pages of wireframes describing how he wanted a file upload dialog to work before a developer gently informed him that said dialog was entirely governed by the OS and we would have no control over it).