In an ideal world, sure. In the world of software dev tools, not always. We've regressed from Delphi and Visual Basic that allowed anyone with some data to pop up an application quickly to use that data, to the current state, which every popular language in industry (and even some unpopular ones like Rust or Haskell) make it well-nigh impossible to do very simple things.
We've gone from empowered computer users writing programs to solve their own problems to helpless computer users who cannot write programs to solve their own problems.
Sure, you may point to Excel and derivatives, but those existed back in the 90s too, and VB/Delphi existed as an intermediate point between problems that are simple enough to solve in a spreadsheet and problems that need less than a tech expert.
Maybe this is why salaries are sky-rocketing: we've collectively made everything so much harder to get into that fewer people are able to solve their own problems.