I'm with you, John. All The Way. In fact, when I'm searching for information and don't want to be sidetracked, I still use Lynx because the info I want is in words and Lynx only displays text.
Back in the mid '90s, which was when I too started (I designed Australia's first ecommerce web site in 1996 for Time Life Corporation) anyone who could code a web site was considered a guru and treated with respect. Today any schmuck can build a web site (I recently had a client buy some web design software and design his own site because he didn't like me having control over it because I knew what I was doing and he didn't); first thing he did ws upload a 16MB logo and wondered why his site was so much slower to load than mine had been. As a result, web developers are no longer shown any respect. It's the same with photography. When I opened my first studio in 1982, pretty much all advertising was shot on 10" x 8" view cameras. My day rate in 1982 was $1100. Today anyone with a digital camera and a laptop calls themselves a photographer and I've heard of commercial jobs on which I quoted $600 being done for $50 by somebody who didn't have a clue what they were doing.
Times have changed and technology has destroyed most of the crafts that actually required skill, vision, creativity and talent; those plus many years experience before you could make a good living out of them. But today's paradigm will shift in time, also. What will not change in business is service, ethics and advice. Get those right and you will always have clients, no matter the changes in technology.