Article note: Please let it be true! I've been waiting for us to move back toward tactile interfaces for like 20 years, before we even got to the worst of it.
The word for all this is ‘mature programming environment.’ Basically, when hardware performance has been pushed to its final limit, and programmers have had several centuries to code, you reach a point where there is far more significant code than can be rationalized. The best you can do is understand the overall layering, and know how to search for the oddball tool that may come in handy