One would hope. But I've been doing this for a few decades and I haven't seen much progress on taking the grunt work out of moving data around and "reformatting

One would hope. But I've been doing this for a few decades and I haven't seen much progress on taking the grunt work out of moving data around and "reformatting" it. A lot of other things in the programming world have improved dramatically though. I wish test driven development had been around when I started.