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The man in the article took a 66% paycut.

I have no idea about the salary level for lorry drivers, but a small curiosity:

It is funny to read these treads, and then reading in another HN post that a guy was able to buy his first home driving laundry truck - and how his contemporary peers seemed to be jealous that they were not able to do such.

It indeed seems like being a lorry driver is the easiest way to get started on the suburban life.

That low variance is double-edged. There is a cap to being a lorry driver, whereas for a developer you can make anything from under minimum wage to billions of dollars.

Being a developer also has a higher status, which I don’t personally care about but I have found to be useful in life.

You can only make billions as developer if you start a company. Then, you're no longer a developer, but rather a business owner and operator - something that a lorry driver can do as well. Also, there's probably larger chance of success in starting a company in logistics than in software.

Plus a failed dev can pivot to tech grifter, which is a useful fallback for many

What do you mean a tech grifter?

Snake oil salesman, quack, so on

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