That's a great story! And it makes a lot of sense - you are getting people used to thinking about automation, demanding automation, and trying to deploy automation to more places than before. You are also creating all sorts of APIs exposed by documents and making things more scriptable.
That's going to increase demand for developers of all languages, even if some of that demand consists of hiring professionals when people recognize they are in over their head with one of these scripting languages, or that they've stretched their existing tools and it's time for a more powerful tool.
The downside is horror stories of developers being called in to fix a tangled mess of VB macros. But there's also gold to be mined in those hills.
That's going to increase demand for developers of all languages, even if some of that demand consists of hiring professionals when people recognize they are in over their head with one of these scripting languages, or that they've stretched their existing tools and it's time for a more powerful tool.
The downside is horror stories of developers being called in to fix a tangled mess of VB macros. But there's also gold to be mined in those hills.