Weren't the first software developers Big Co secretaries just keeping up with the times and tools that made them better at their jobs?

Entry level/ junior software developer roles might not need anything more than basic understanding of how code works in general, or companies to just be willing to do on the job training.

Maybe if companies actually invested in their employees like that again, they would be incentivized to actually pay them their fair market value and people would stop having to jump jobs every two years just to make what they deserve