It grew 20% in 5 years and then stayed steady until quite recently. Maybe, just fucking maybe, it’s more a reaction to overhiring. And it’s 1 in 4 who lost jobs that work in these fields, but it doesn’t say what percentage of jobs are in these fields. Because the economy didn’t add 20% more jobs.

That doesn’t change my argument in the slightest.

Decimated means, literally, one in ten. You have provided NOTHING indicating the 10% of high paying jobs disappeared. Sorry, words have meaning, and you’re just doing “Charlie Brown had hoes.”