The reason was the coders' mindset who entered the job market after 2000, maybe up to 2010, that the ability to code (to use a programming language) is the ultimate development of homo sapiens. With that solved by AI, we can safely start going back to simple, sane concepts like low-code and no-code, property sheets and drag & drop user interfaces.

Because script kiddies in the early 2000's, only know vi and emacs, and have nostalgia for using computers as many of us did up to the early 1990's.