Agreed. The tradition has been continued by workflow engines, low code tools, platforms like Salesforce and lately AI-builders. The issue is generally not that these are bad, but because they don't _feel_ like software development everyone is comfortable skipping steps of the development process.
To be fair, I've seen shops which actually apply good engineering practices to Excel sheets too. Just definitely not a majority...
Sometimes it isn't that folks are confortable skipping steps, rather they aren't even available.
As so happens in the LLM age, I have been recently having to deal with such tools, and oh boy Smalltalk based image development in the 1990's with Smalltalk/V is so much better in regards to engineering practices than those "modern" tools.
I cannot test code, if I want to backup to some version control system, I have to manually export/import a gigantic JSON file that represents the low-code workflow logic, no proper debugging tools, and so many other things I could rant about.
But I guess this is the future, AI agents based workflow engines calling into SaaS products, deployed in a MACH architecture. Great buzzword bingo, right?