As humans we are adverse to complexity and naturally lazy, our goal is always to find easier ways to do things that benefit us more. It's why languages like Python have taken off.
A large portion of the population is being told that programming is where you go to make a ton of money, and then subsequently hear that machine learning is the future of programming where you don't need to understand your data, you don't need to understand anything. You just plug in some magic codes and get out great results because the computer learns what you want!
Of course, it's not like that. But we're going to see a lot more of this attitude, because Machine Learning is not pitched as "high level statistics" but rather "magic that does what you want!"