Where reality seems to be heading:

Company hires a bunch of young MBAs from prestigious universities who don't know how to code; pay them large salaries to produce a massive pile of junk which doesn't work. Pay some engineer with 10+ years of experience to be a 'code janitor' to clean up the mess to actually make it work.

Quite dystopian considering that the experienced engineer could probably build the whole thing in 1/10th of the time from scratch.

This would align with the trend of companies imposing an increasing number of arbitrary and counter-productive constraints on engineers whilst simultaneously expecting them to be more productive.