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I prefer to think of them as carpenters.

Every carpentry job requires solving a lot of problems every day, and using a variety of skills.

But carpenters don't think of themselves as divas or creatives.

In most cases, it's not nearly so romantic.

There are objectives, roadmaps, client needs: it's just a job. Put on your hard hat, get your morning coffee and do it.

I agree with everything you say but what bugs the living hell out of me is this profession's infatuation the new shiny. That along with the almost universal absence of any objective evidence that the new shiny will positively effect the project's bottom line.

In former times, what we consider the trades were also romanticized. The masons and all that. I expect software to follow the same path and at an accelerated rate but that still gives us a while before we‘re fully normalized.

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