I'm not sure that all of that has really gone away.
It's just concentrated into the hands of a very few super specialists, it's much harder to get to their level but their work is much much more important.
Better yet -- the jobs of those specialists got better, and the people who would have done similar work did not end up unemployed, they just do some other kind of programming.
It's just concentrated into the hands of a very few super specialists, it's much harder to get to their level but their work is much much more important.