> I haven't seen anything like that. 99.9% of applications I interact with are just a series of simple CRUD operations.

The painful reality is that this is true, but only at work.

There is so much that you use written in web technologies that are no CRUD. Some of that is Electron apps like VS Code and some of it is applications packaged in docker containers. Almost all of this non-work and non-CRUD stuff is open source. If you aren't writing code outside of work, where its only CRUD, your perspective of the universe is about 2mm wide. That is where the Dunning-Kruger starts to set in and why all this shit gets reinvented every couple of years. Its easy to think that: 1) you are awesome and 2) the world is painful when your perspective of the universe is only 2mm wide.

For everybody else, these things that most developers complain about really aren't painful enough to warrant any call to action because there are other things that bring substantially greater pain.