I've been programming professionally for decades. LLMs are extremely useful. At this point if you haven't figured out how to get value out of them, you're either holding them very wrong or you're being willfully ignorant.

There are a couple of notable counterexamples here (nobody sane thinks Carmack doesn't know how to program, for example), but by and large I agree with your observation. The people excited about programming with LLMs are, on average, people who weren't good at programming to begin with. Still, given that these counterexamples do exist I try to avoid painting with an overly broad brush for the sake of nuance.