People still do make wood bookshelves. The computer offers unprecedented flexibility with unprecedented ease. I don't want anyone taking that away from me. Of course, there are levels that I probably don't want to dig down to, like rewriting network code. But I want as much flexibility reservered for me as possible.
People can create things of beauty with computers.
People can do amazingly cool things through programming. We need to not lose that. Because I don't think that they see this point. I shuddered a little at that. They're not inventing new ways of using the flexibility and power of the meta-medium.