There is a real divergence of experiences. That is one factor. There are people who are domain experts in some narrow complex domain who do such complex work that LLMs are still not there. I see some of that in my work place with large complex, domain specific languages, etc.

This is also challenging people's view of themselves as craftsman and the "crafting" of software. Something like carpenters who disavow power tools.

There is the worry about slop which is also real. I.e. that AI can and does generate garbage that ends up making things worse.

Worries about job security, the future of the industry, people's economic future and place in a new world where parts of their job get automated away.

I agree with you. Users don't care how the code is generated. This is purely economics there is no big market for "craft code" (like craft beer). There is only market for working software. And yes, LLMs are non-deterministic token generators, but so are humans, and LLMs are mind blowing. We live in the future. They don't replace software engineers quite yet- they are power tools.