I've heard this said about every new generation of programming techniques. It's true about every technique for which tooling isn't yet widely available, right up until somebody writes the necessary tools.

You could replace the subject of your comment with, say, "automatic garbage collection", and it would have been equally true ("that's just what your job entails!"), right up until GC made its way into the first mainstream languages, and it very quickly became a tool used by almost everybody.