Programming is difficult because people are profiting from the difficultability of it. For as long as you can give someone a money-making machine, but say that it will be 'a lot of esoteric work' to make it, grease it, keep it clean .. there will be development work.
By the very nature of the business, if you are not improving something, some human-describable human activity, by using esoteric magic, you're probably not that good. If you're making it indescribable in the process of making improvement, perhaps you've been in the business a long enough time to know, the only difference is whether the customer can be bothered to learn the language, or not. Anyone can 'program computers'; computers are a universal language.