falcor84 parent
As I see it, all of civilization is built on top of this "laziness" principle of "I'm tired of having to deal with X, how can I sort X so that I don't need to think about it anymore, and can instead focus on Y". I'm general, people want their brain to work on other stuff, not what's currently in front of them.
...which is precisely why they end up with slop rather than increased productivity, as it's not a tool that's up for this task.
On a related note, there are hundreds of millions of knowledge workers around the world who don't want to write code but do want to automate repetitive calculations across various domains. Over the last decades, they have created many billions of spreadsheets that are now the blood vessels of the global economy. Most of these spreadsheets are bug-ridden, particularly around edge conditions. Nevertheless, the economic "blood" keeps flowing, routing around errors and inefficiencies, and I've never heard anyone claim that we'd have better productivity if random Joe couldn't create a spreadsheet, and had to instead wait for the budget for a programmer to write code for them to do that (even if we had programmers writing bug-free code).