Agree 100% about the future. From a historical perspective, programming is something completely new that will have more evolution beyond programming languages, frameworks and operating systems.

Now in the world we have zillions of software engineers doing the same thing redundantly. In a way the software development industry protects itself not creating the tools to reduce the industry itself. This is a typical innovation dilemma for a whole industry. Not saying that this is conscious but there is a big focus on pleasuring ourselves with new things that continue a well known road of fancy programming languages, etc.

There should be also a difference between "engineer" and "programmer" and in many countries and professions it is. As in, you surely can program after a few online courses, and even have some great results in that topic. For engineering though, it's another level needing way more and differentiated courses.