> We simply have better magic wands and more powerful spells now.

Wouldn't it be nice though if the incantation of the same spell would always do the same thing every time ? You see that's how my old wand and spells worked.

Look at it from the perspective of a manager above individual developers. Their instructions to those devs are already a series of non-deterministic incantations. They ask for things in English and get something back in Git a week later!

We've just pushed that indirection down a level from managers to ICs.

The ICs are shocked and surprised that this level of imprecision is allowed.

Their managers are not shocked at all, this is normal for them!