I agree in principle with most of what you've said here. The server-side is going to be a lot more intelligent in the near future though. My prediction is that every cloud provider is going to have some sort of AWS Lambda service that will eventually become like a server-less toolkit in the cloud. And these platforms could eventually have some augmented intelligence built-in.

Essentially, we can't keep teaching each and every developer database connections, SQL, et al. The cognitive load associated with these sort of programs actually slows down advancement, and the quicker you can setup cloud-powered services that get the job done, the better it will be. Although, I can't say what that will do the livelihood of developers. We'll have to wait and see.