It's not necessarily that they are worse programmers, but rather represent the industrialization of building software, as outlined by Brad Cox [0]. Partially driving this is the shorter tenure of today's software engineers. How many beautiful things have had to be completely rewritten because the original creator had left, and no one could grok it? Not that there is no way to reconcile fungibility with expressiveness and beauty, but the tradeoffs involved are tricky and will always end up disappointing somebody.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3246772_Planning_th...