Great writing.
But: The printing press did displace manual copying of texts, not calligraphy. Digital type setting did not displace typography but the manual labor of type setting.
In a similar vein I think AI code gen will displace code churn, the labor of linking libraries into an "App" and making it build. It won't displace coding.
As an old scener myself I both love and hate it. The scene is about breaking rules, even it's own, and in that spirit it's hella cool.
On the other hand, at least for me, the scene was craft for crafts sake. Nobody would pay for somebody to optimize assembly code by the byte just to make art!
I think 4x4 matrices for 3D transforms (esp homogenous coordinates) are very elegant.
I think the intended critique is that the huge n*m matrices used in ML are not elegant - but the point is made poorly by pointing out properties of general matrices.
In ML matrices are just "data", or "weights". There are no interesting properties to these matrices. In a way a Neumann (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%27s_elephant) Elephant.
Now, this might just be what it is needed for ML to work and deal with messy real world data! But mathematically it is not elegant.