I see software development as only one among the many things a computing system should enable. It's definitely an important one. But computers should enable creativity and power for all kinds of tasks, not just programming.
It's sad to me that people in all these different fields besides ours get stuck with webapps. I understand why they use them, they're very convenient. But it would have been great if we could have provided them an even better OS/desktop environment so that they never would have had to switch to such an unempowering tool.
Additionally, programmers being one of the last holdouts of actually engaging with Unix-as-a-way-of-doing-things is a precarious place to be. Microsoft/GitHub is on full "embrace" mode again, and it looks like they're going to make another run at slurping everyone into their ecosystem. Same with tools like Repl.it. It seems to me that the proportion of people who are engaged with the Unix way of doing things (piping text around, etc.) is shrinking, not growing.
EDIT: To get myself back on topic, for these reasons I see people experimenting with new (and crucially local) environments as really exciting. Traditional Unix environments don't need to be the last word, we can do better.