Couldn't agree more with this sentiment. And to expand on it - the great outsourcing events we saw in the mid-2000s didn't work out for many of the things outside of programming: IT consulting in general, support and operations, call centers and things like design and architecture. The barrier was not always technical, but often a misunderstanding of how BaU works in the <parent_country> vs offshore and/or what the ask/expectations were. There's a lot of waste that happens when needing to be overly explicit and still having the message misinterpreted, interpreted too literally or simply failure to understand.

> This is also one of the main reasons why all programming jobs were not outsourced to India.

There's a whole industry here in America that re-shores programming contracts. They know they can't underbid Indian/foreign body shops so they just wait a few months and call back the companies who went with cheaper programmers. If the company is still around it's generally a complete re-write.

Great point. A lot of folks forget that not all programming jobs can/should be outsourced. There's value in outsourcing but specifications and contexts change that.