It's like with AI images, where they look plausible at first, but then you start noticing all the little things that are off in the sidelines.
writing code is the easiest part of software development. Reviewing code is so much more difficult than writing it
If more time and effort were put into writing code which is easier to review, the difficulty of writing it would increase and the difficulty of reading it would decrease, flipping that equation. The incentives just aren't like that. It doesn't pay to maximize readability against time spent writing: Not every line will have to be reviewed, and not every line that has to be reviewed will be so complex that readability needs to be perfect to be maintainable.
And regarding "not every line will have to be reviewed, and not every line that has to be reviewed will be so complex that readability needs to be perfect to be maintainable.", the problem with AI is that code becomes basically unknowable.
Which is fine if everything that is built is slop, but many things aren't slop. Stuff that touches money, healthcare, personal relationships, etc you know, the things that matter in life, risks all turning into slop, which <will> have real life consequences.
We'll start seeing this in a few years.