One point is missing for me - you get lazy. People are less and less equiped to think about complex problems the more they RELY on this for coding. Also this article is just about coding.

Depends on the context - in a scripting language where you have some kind of console you just don't copy all lines, and see what each pipe does one after another. This is pretty straight forward. (Not talking about compiled code though)

More big money swooping up journalism, what could go wrong.

From a "neutral" perspective it gives them legitimacy From a "maximalist" perspective it gives you access to government From a "scammer" perspective it gets you tax dollars and average Joes

If your sycophants eat everything you'll throw at them there won't be any need for justification. Which completely baffles me. The US digital technology sector seems to be full of yes man and groupthink, and it's getting worse.