**Old conventional wisdom**: Recruiters earn their pay, they match you to a perfectly fine job.
**New conventional wisdom**: Recruiters are mostly useless to employers because there are 1000 apps per w2+benefits job. Recruiters carve out a niche snagging temp hourly workers who will be laid off in 3-6 months when the Jira epic is done.
Mostly informed by an interview with a company that does almost entirely short engagements and my last job.