The people you call "dropouts" have written 100% of the software that people actually use and actually keeps the real world running, so maybe you shouldn't write them off.
We get it, Rust is great, and LLMs too. But sometimes it's like listening to teenage philosophers who just discovered atheism, who go on and on to disparage all religions every chance they get. They're so full of themselves that they don't realize they're missing entire areas of understanding about the world and people.
The juvenile arrogance on display in many threads in recent years is second-hand embarrassing. Meanwhile the greybeards continue getting the job done, with or without LLMs, in Rust, C++ or even C.
If you think style guides don't matter anymore, I encourage you to submit patches to the people on your list whose credibility you're borrowing, and see if they agree. Tell Linus to delete https://docs.kernel.org/process/coding-style.html because it doesn't matter because we have AI now. Or ask GvR if the current Python maintainers should deprecate https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/, since agents don't need it.
You tried to assert that nobody writing meaningful software has ever thought something like "hey, y'know what, that's actually kinda cool! I'm going to change my mind about LLMs being useless", which is easily false. They don't need to declare they're generals to agentic armies, they just need an open mind.
Which it seems all writers of great software do. And you don't...