I sometimes feel like the last person that managed to land a decent tech job without an undergraduate degree, but a good part of that was being able to play a normal, likeable person in the interview.
I think what you say might be true for any field that’s new enough. There’s high demand for labourers, very little skill around, and a low barrier for an autodidact to pick up the basics and outshine the competition.
Yikes, this should go in /c/collapse.