I have never heard coding referred to as a fad. Maybe it appears that way from the outside in the way that we support it in the US. The bigger issue is that we keep cutting education and lack literacy and computer literacy. Computer courses should’ve always included coding for all students. Instead we teach them how to use ever evolving office suites in an attempt to prepare people, which doesn’t give them the skills to use any new or changed software. Kids should be learning debugging and coding at a young age.