This pattern has been repeated for just about every job title I have seen in technology. 20, 25 years ago it was "go to this bootcamp and get your MSCE or CCNA and you will have an easy, high-paying job in two weeks". Five years ago it was Data Scientist. Now it's UI/UX Designer. With a lot more in-between.

And it is *always* the exact same pattern. A job title suddenly has more demand than there are workers. Bootcamps spring up to train people. A few folks who have the passion for the work and some talent, go through bootcamps, and do really well for themselves and talk about it. Low-quality bootcamps come around to take advantage of people, and fill themselves with folks with little passion or talent. The labor pool gets filled with low-passion, low-talent, poorly trained people, and it becomes impossible to hire any juniors and even mid-levels because so few people are any good. Companies give up, that job title stops being hot, and now the bootcamps just take advantage of students and take their money and those folks graduate with little hope of actually finding a job.

J.Ja