> Most programming jobs are just writing "crud code" if you want to call it that...basically mostly meetings, and cranking out banal code.

I would say that in such instances, often times the code is banal, but proper modeling of the reality, even in cases where final result looks like a classical crud, is where complexity hides.

I say "hides", because, from my experience, only those directly involved in the implementation are actually mentally exposed to it. If they care about the quality of the output, that is.