When I started my professional life in the 90s, we used Visual J++ (Java) and remember all this damn code it generated to do UIs...

I remember being aghast at all the incomprehensible code and "do not modify" comments - and also at some of the devs who were like "isn't this great?".

I remember bailing out asap to another company where we wrote Java Swing and was so happy we could write UIs directly and a lot less code to understand. I'm feeling the same vibe these days with the "isn't it great?". Not really!

You just brought me back to my first internship where as interns we were asked to hand-manipulate a 30k lines auto-generated SOAP API definition because we lost the license to the software that generated it

Oh the memories, but at least that generated code was deterministic...