Carpenters/framers are less skilled and paid less than cabinetmakers. But the world needs more carpenters.

While it sounds likely true for the US, it's the opposite in Germany: likely due to societal expectations on "creature comforts" and German homes not being framed with 2x4's but instead getting guild-approved craftsmen to construct a roof for a brick building (with often precast concrete slabs forming the intermediate floors; they're segmented along the non-bridging direction to be less customized).

The value is where the demand is, or where the market values it and not just in a skill of working with wood with tools to create nearly anything.