I think Chris and his team's goals now are more to build a programming tool primarily for the non-programmer rather than try to be all things to all people, and

I think Chris and his team's goals now are more to build a programming tool primarily for the non-programmer rather than try to be all things to all people, and also cater for professionals. So I doubt it's going to have a huge impact on how professional developers work for the issues mentioned, but I do have high hopes this can create something that is more approachable for everyone else, and also a more gentle introduction to programming than I had with learning Pascal. Anything that brings new ideas to the table, such as Eve, Bret Victor's original talk that inspired Light Table, and Light Table as a whole are good for the industry. Apple already used a lot of those ideas when building Swift, which likely wouldn't have happened otherwise.