alt Hacker NewsI don't think that's true, at least for everywhere I've worked.
Agile has completely changed things, for better or for worse.
Being a SWE today is nothing like 30 years ago, for me. I much preferred the earlier days as well, as it felt far more engineered and considered as opposed to much of the MVP 'productivity' of today.
MVP is not necessarily opposed to engineered and considered. It's just that many people who throw that term around have little regard for engineering, which they hide behind buzzwords like "agile".