It's time to give up your silly cynicism, embrace being a professional slop shoveler and doing work with higher volume, more repetition and less creativity than ever.
The sloppings will continue until morale improves.
I've embraced it, and I'm coding faster than all my colleagues, some days I open more PRs than the rest of my team combined.
The slip mines need more PhD labour to label stuff - that’s your future and you better learn to love it.