This was true when adding features cost a lot of time and mental effort.

Nowadays, it's just a prompt away. LLM's can still run around in circles when the code quality is bad enough, but LLM's are also getting exceedingly better at catching that and writing code that's good.

We're all in a different phase of the collective grieving process, some are still in denial, I would put you in the bargaining phase judging from the comment.