Comment by tdeck

What happened was the audience changed. Before, the audience for things about writing code was mostly software developers. Now it's the employing class. The collective wisdom of engineers? It has little impact on the conversation because the audience doesn't care. In fact, it's more than indifference; many are eager to no longer be "burdened" by it.

Not only do they not want to pay our salaries, which is an expense, they're eager not to have to depend on our expertise or judgement as well. That judgement and expertise is a locus of control that resides outside their own hierarchy.