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To be fair:
Most tooling really is shit, to use the colorful expression above.

We develop software with tools that would offend any "normal" user.

The typical compiler is still a monolith, almost every build process requires manual tuning, syntax highlighting and looking up library functions is the pinnacle of IDE evolution.

I fear that a similar thing to mass production has been happening for a while in software development:
A process of de-skilling that tries to tie developers to a large infrastructure, but ultimately makes them experts with a set of tools under someone else's control.

(This post is partly sponsored by some musings about 'agile' I had this morning.)