Every improvement will be moderated increased demands from management, crunch, pressure to release, "good enough", add this extra library that monetizes/spys on the customer etc

In the same way that hardware improvements are quickly gobbled up by more demanding software.

The people doing the programming will also be more removed technically. I can do Python, Java , Kotlin. I can do a little C++ ,less C, and a lot less assembly.

will be moderated by* increased demands.