Ask HN: Is software engineering slowly getting automated?

There are certain fields in software engineering that, at least to me, appear to be getting automated away--or at least have become less important for most companies to worry about. Take cloud computing engineering for example. AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud have abstracted away a lot of the challenges in cloud computing, making it less important for companies to hire engineers in this area. The same goes for really any PaaS; many ML services have greatly reduced the demand for ML-exclusive engineers at companies, especially non-technical ones. There are even higher-level services such as Firebase that make backend development obsolete for many cases. What are your thoughts on this?