I'm going to have to agree with Caldwell, we have to keep web design at its roots. It's bad enough that just because people think they can use a WYSIWYG editor that makes them a pro web designer.
The fact is, our industry is saturated because these things. Yes... I'm not going to lie... I use dreamweaver, BUT i don't use it for the WYSIWYG, I never have design view open, now Caldwell with argue with me till he's blue in the face the Aptana is a better editor than DW but the fact of the matter is I've been using DW since Macromedia DW MX and it's just the UI and the functions are just more comfortable to me.
But back on point here, these people and companies, whom i shall call the saturators, are selling services that they really know nothing about and over charge innocent small businesses and individuals. What does this do? It causes trust problems between other web designers and prospective clients. The middle east has really over saturated the mark because their standard of living is sooooooo much low than the rest of the world. I get that they're trying to make a living and and we live in a world with free market, but what happens to the economy because people think they can just use a WYSIWYG editor and charge out the ass for it from other countries? The money doesnt get recycled back into that countries economy but rather goes to a different economy and then people wanna gripe... "well why's the economy so bad??" well outsourcer to the saturators the answer is simple... you're giving your money to another country instead of helping your own county out and getting quality work done from someone who has the fundamentals of their profession.
I'm getting to my point i promise
Bottom line WYSIWYG editors have ruined this industry, people can't stand to do a little bit of typing, trial and error, and debugging. They want everything served to them with the point and click method. For this same reason jobs are being lost and people wanna believe it's more efficient... I would rather spend 10 hours on one web page doing hard coding with proper syntax and styling knowing it's going to be cross browser compatible, than spend 5 minutes on that same page just dragging and dropping crap on a page that's only going to work in IE and have no idea how to fix it... That's my whole point...
Sorry to be long winded
