I think this has as much to do with how hard software became to understand as with the new shortcut to refusing to understand it and the shortsightedness in willing to take it.

We lost a lot of traction in the name of ease of staffing and speed. Using LLMs to generate more code that is harder to understand it catalyzes it but the root of the problem, in my opinion, was letting go of great design and deep understanding for short term profit.