The durdgery is what pushes languages forward to be more powerful and expressive. Thousands of programmers all facing the same drudgework, they came up with new languages. They weren't content to just accept Java, they made Clojure, and Scala, and lots of other languages. That in turn pushed Java to keep up or be left behind. Take away the drudgery and guess what? All that goes away. Just let claude crank out 30K LoC a day, who cares now?
I still remember back to when I was first learning to write code. I dreamed of code that wrote code for me. But it wasn't because I didn't want to code. It was because I wanted to code in something more elegant. Claude is for someone who says "I don't want to code, I just want to get paid" and it really shows. Slop is slop, even before Claude came along. The programmers who just want to get paid always produced slop. They just have a machine doing it for them now. Who needs them anymore really?