I felt this way until I saw a person who had never seen an if/else or loop or variables ... program a game from nothing, including graphics, in the time most hand coders would take to get a plan together. And the game/gameplay/interface was their idea, they just didn't write the code.

I asked many times "what if something breaks and you don't know how to fix it because you never understood the code" and that did happen, but instead of hitting a roadblock they found their way through it by prompting AI.

I hear where you are coming from, but I don't think many people will choose the harder/more involved way when there's an easy way.

There were many people who struggled to go from punch cards to modern programming on a terminal screen. I think we'll find our way through this, but not using the new technology is probably not the outcome.