There are plenty of alternatives for programming than through written language. It's just that commercialization took the first thing that was available and exploited it. Same thing is happening with AI. Many innovations are doomed to become cursed. Computers are cursed. Medicine is cursed. Science is cursed. Everything sucks and that's just the way it is.

After the war when the dust settles, we'll start over. We might escape the death of the sun, but not the heat death of the universe. Therefore, none of the above matters and I'm rambling.