Absolutely agree, and I'd add that another force driving this push is the technical content industry, which benefits from the influx of people looking to get into tech. There aren't many other well-paying industries where you can teach yourself via prepackaged technical tutorials or take a short bootcamp in order to get a job.

It's a self-fulfilling prophecy: we who work in tech (specifically web-enabled commerce) have an interest in advancing the legitimacy and functionality of the internet, which is enabled by tech companies and those that create content for the purposes of teaching.