Exactly this. Free software has helped shift the economic power from programming experts to business people. Who cares if you are a top-class compiler expert. Compilers are a commodity anyway. You are better off if you are young, and photogenic and can start a social media app that monetizes people privacy.

In addition, things have shifted to cloud, which favors bin corporations even more, and data and code is not even accessible, even theoretically, for the user.

Of course big business is a fan of free software, it enables them to get for basically free, a lot of infrastructure code.

Lawyers and Doctors must absolutely hold programmers in derision for undermining their own economic power.