That is an insane assumption to make based on the grandparents' post. What part of them talking about how much they care about the systems thinking and software architecture and usefulness and meaningfulness to other people of software over the day-to-day drudgery of APIs and bugs and typing in syntax indicates to you that they only care about money and status? They just care about a different part of the process.

I went into this field because I love programming. I didn't even know how well these jobs paid until my junior year of college when I got an internship at AWS. I constantly programmed and read programming texts in my spare time growing up, in college, and after work.

I love AI tools. I can have AI do the boring parts. I can even have to write polished, usable apps in languages that I don't know.

I miss being able to think so much about architecture, best practices, frameworks/languages, how to improve, etc.

> many went into this field for money

I went into this field for both! what do i do now, i'm screwed