The thing is that computing has both reached the limits of where "text dump" programming can go AND has found the text-dump programming is something like a "local maximum" among the different clear options available to programmers.

It seems like we need something different. But the underlying problem might be that our intuitions about "what's better" don't seem to work. Perhaps an even wider range of ideas needs to be considered and not simply the alternatives that seem intuitively appealing (but which have failed compared to the now-standard approach).