Essentially I agree about not reducing them to just coding apps.

Am ultimately whittling everything down to Linux kernel + inference + data model so far captured from my current OS use.

Am ready to be done with syntactic programming of the machine. Rather than label the filesystem with context I can label entities in the viewport and those entities can happen to look like word processors not just video game characters.

An basically making a Blender-clone designed to browse and edit models that replaces the usual desktop metaphor.

Then I can noodle the virtual geometry, label it and understand under the hood its just a function factory mutating geometry of memory address truth table and display truth table.

The last gasp/push to rid ourselves of OOP is upon us; code objects of all kinds gonna be dead sooner than later.

Not sure I agree then software engineers will be insulated when everyone can do state management through visual edits. Maybe visual design work will still be a thing; the how to get machine into desired state is most certainly not going to be with visual syntax structure fir much longer