SPSS or Stata are GUIs that help to write a reproducible code... are we really arguing about that in 2018? Why so much élitist crap? And btw - more general que

SPSS or Stata are GUIs that help to write a reproducible code... are we really arguing about that in 2018? Why so much élitist crap? And btw - more general question - why computer scientists of the 70s (SPSS is from 1968) had much better intuitions of what user needed that computer scientist of today?