Sampling bias.

You're on a site dominated by software engineers, in the field of software engineering, and likely have a lot of software engineer friends.

Translators got fucked, there's very little market for them compared now compared to decades past. Find their forums and I bet you'd have seen similar worry.

Agreed. The job market for ad-copy, proofreading, etc. also got collectively set on fire - particularly in the gig economy.