Yes, but this is always the case when more people are doing something. The less gated something is, the worse the quality will, in general, get. When writing wa

Yes, but this is always the case when more people are doing something. The less gated something is, the worse the quality will, in general, get. When writing was the privilege of the few, written words carefully curated and edited and survive for ages. When everybody could write, there was a lot of trash, along with a lot of great stuff. The average will usually decline in such cases, because most people will not have the drive and resources to become excellent at it. In the same way, when we are pushing coding at kids barely above kindergarten, there is going to be lots of crap code, but also much more excellent code, in general though, the amount of crap will overwhelm the amount of excellence so average will trend down. If you applied some kind of cutoff at the base, removing the absolute worst, the average might trend up. This is the case with anything that gets more democratized.