From the article:

> In woodworking, the power tools didn’t reduce the woodworker’s emotional investment in what they made. The worker still felt like they’d made that thing out of wood themselves.

This raises the question - is the software engineer the tool or the thing being made? And who is the woodworker?

SE who worked for big tech thinking they were any different than the farm worker are now disillusioned

Maybe there are multiple bubbles slowly imploding at once here.