Bill de hÓra notices a trend in the leading edge of the software industry:

You do get the feeling sometimes the statesmen of the agile community consider the last 10 years of statically typed container backed middleware a distraction from the real goal - the ability to implement business value faster than the business can think it up.

That's been my take on the industry for a long time now. We've had a decade long break in the road towards increased productivity, led by people who wouldn't know progress if it smacked them in the face.