I think it's a trend in that today we have a lot more programmers than we did 30 years ago, and much of today's programming languages and tools are highly abstracted. Most programmers don't have to know much about how their computer or OS works to get something up and running. It's good for productivity, and I'm not recommending that we go backward, but there is a consequence to making things (seem) easier.

It's much worse for contracted stuff, in-house development, or B2B products, because in all of those cases user experience is not really a big deal and barely-functional, slow systems will continue to be used. In addition, many developers being hired at such places are being hired by people who are not, themselves, programmers, and therefore aren't screened the way they would be at a software company.