There's no reason to think it's hyperbolic or ridiculous.

We've seen lots of sorts of standardization around professional software development, with uniformly dismal results, and lots of criminalization of experimentation by astoundingly incompetent authorities.

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The first official standard for professional software development was COBOL, shortly followed by JOVIAL.

In the 01970s the US military standardized on Ada for, among other things, their hard-real-time systems; it took about a decade of violating the standard to convert Ada into a system that was somewhat suitable for hard-real-time systems, after which an Ada-induced problem destroyed the first Ariane 5.

The ACM withdrew from the SWEBOK process after it became apparent that knowledge of actual programming was going to be completely excluded; instead SWEBOK certifies that you endorse the obsolete, counterproductive management processes to which "agile development" was conceived as an antidote. (If you're familiar with the BOK for some other branch of engineering, you may be aware that, for example, the structural engineering BOK includes not only project engineering practices but also what makes structures stand up or fall down, and the civil engineering BOK includes things like engineering mechanics, strength of materials, and chemistry. Presumably this is because political decisionmakers have been able to observe the difference between successful and unsuccessful skyscrapers and dams and infer which engineers were responsible.)

The A+ certification for IT work is impossible to get if you only know Linux and not Microsoft Windows, and last I saw, it did still require that you knew how to debug IRQ conflicts—long after ISA buses were limited to PC104 systems.

PCI-DSS audits routinely, though not universally, mandate counterproductive security practices like installing virus scanners on Linux servers.

If we'd effectively standardized professional software development in 01960 we'd still be programming in COBOL today.

Moreover, the Board of Licensure could revoke our licenses when we criticized widespread bad software development practices, as has happened to Charles Marohn of Strong Towns: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/5/23/lawsuit

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You may not have commemorated it, but on March 1 we passed the 32nd anniversary of the Secret Service raiding Steve Jackson Games for publishing a "manual for computer crime", namely, the Cyberpunk module/game for the GURPS role-playing game/system.

Outside the US the situation is often even worse; Saeed Malekpour was sentenced to death in 02010 because he wrote open-source image-uploading software and a porn site used it without his knowledge. (His sentence was suspended; he escaped in 02019.)

Do you really think it would be a good idea for the governments that chose those prosecutors to decide who gets to program and how?

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The bigger issue is that computers are now our exocortices; we've offloaded significant amounts of our thinking and communication onto them, as we did previously with inventions like books and clocks. Computers vastly extend our mental abilities. Without control over our computers—without the legal and practical ability to program them and to investigate what they are programmed to do—we in effect lose our freedom of speech, association, and thought. That power is far too dangerous to allow any guild or faction to monopolize it.