Hi Mario,
That's a great summation of much that's going on in our realm.

I, too, am amazed at some of the people willing to describe themselves as developers or designers, let alone all those other terms. While it's handy that you don't absolutely have to have certification to do this type of work, you do end up with more wannabes. Of course, being able to start a business with free tools and no capital investment sounds very attractive in a poor economy with high unemployment.

I noticed recently that a potential business model seems to have sprung from this tendency - I've run across a handful of "white-label" shops whose purpose is to secretly write the checks that the "developer" or "designer" can't cash, so to speak. ;) It will be interesting to see how they make out.

Also anecdotally, it seems to me that the people who really can't do the job well are becoming fewer, at least where I've been hanging out. So the problem may be self-correcting to an extent.

Thanks, Dave