I'm not happy about the drop in quality either, and I'm not advocating for just making software shittier.
However, look at history of DSLR cameras vs mobile phone cameras. Mobile phones were always worse than large format cameras, and we've got a massive quantity-over-quality explosion in photos taken. It didn't replace professional photography, but let people upload photos of their lunch to social media.
I think in programming we're getting frustrated because we're trying to naively use high-volume low-quality code generators in our previous low-volume high-quality workflows. We're still discovering what's the programming equivalent of bathroom selfies, photos of receipts and QR codes.
However, look at history of DSLR cameras vs mobile phone cameras. Mobile phones were always worse than large format cameras, and we've got a massive quantity-over-quality explosion in photos taken. It didn't replace professional photography, but let people upload photos of their lunch to social media.
I think in programming we're getting frustrated because we're trying to naively use high-volume low-quality code generators in our previous low-volume high-quality workflows. We're still discovering what's the programming equivalent of bathroom selfies, photos of receipts and QR codes.