It's not. Higher level expression has been advertised as the end of programming for at least two languages I can think of.

COBOL and SQL.

> The idea (don't laugh) was that it would allow ordinary mortals to write programs. -Ed Milne re: COBOL in 1997 on Usenet comp.lang.cobol. https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.cobol/c/5xwjgZ9px88?pl...

SQL: > SQL ... completely failed at its intended purpose: a way for non-programmers to ask questions of a database. -John D Cook, Why SQL Failed, https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/02/05/why-sql-failed/

> What we thought we were doing was making it possible for non-programmers to interact with databases. -SQL co-inventor Donald Chamberlin, 1995 SQL reunion, CHM. https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20...