Well, a few weeks ago I would have agreed to your opinion.
But after watching Bret Victors great Talk about The Future Of Programming (https://vimeo.com/71278954) I don't think you're 100% right.
Right at the moment I also prefer hand written code over that generated code by some Adobe tool. But as Bret Victor puts it in the talk, I think it would be shame if we create applications in 20 to 40 years in the same way we do today.
Or to put it into another way, who really knows what programming is? Is programming something you do when you put characters into a text editor or is it something you do when you click something together in a tool like Macaw?
I don't think we should wear blinkers but instead should be open for new ways of thinking and approaching stuff. In the end, as long as computers do the stuff we want them to do, I don't really care about how its done anymore.
Devin's post and attitude are part of the problem and why development is still utterly stuck in writing-lines-of-text in an editor mode. As if that's some canonical 'best way' to produce software.
Suggest Devin goes to Bret's site and reads some of his essays about tools. Software engineering is currently being massively held back (primarily in terms of efficiency) by the reluctance to build out and support tools to abstract creation further away from text editors. IMO.
I'd like to think that Macaw is like training wheels (or a fixie bike) for getting into web development. Is it production ready-code? Probably not. Does it do a good job of showing how things should work? Hell yes.
