I hate when people say this. SOME engineers didn't care, a lot of us did. There's a lot of "engineers getting a taste of their own medicine" sentiment going around when most of us just like an intellectual job where we get to build stuff. The "disrupt everything no matter the consequences" psychos have always been a minority and I think a lot of devs are sick of those people.

Also 10x salary?! Apparently I missed the gravy train. I think you're throwing a big class of people under the bus because of your perception of a non representative sample