I'm not sure if it's replacing the middle class of software engineering, but I do feel it's generally true that the static approaches to middle class software engineering are evolving quicker than people are keeping up.

Hopefully when there's bad devs, there's a bit less making a mess where someone doesn't know better and as a result some amount of average or general best practices start happening.

This can be true not just for software development, but making a mess in anything, including a spreadsheet.