Also, many more tasks are now economically feasible whereas before, the high fixed upfront cost of programming would have made them never done. In other words,

Also, many more tasks are now economically feasible whereas before, the high fixed upfront cost of programming would have made them never done. In other words, we're making more programs now to do more more-trivial things because the cost of doing so is lower, and that's more or less a good thing.