Meh. Unless something very unexpected happens, human programmers aren't going to be a thing anymore, starting in a not-too-far future. And programming AIs will

Meh. Unless something very unexpected happens, human programmers aren't going to be a thing anymore, starting in a not-too-far future. And programming AIs will neither have trouble understanding all those layers of abstraction, nor will they add additional ones, since their main purpose is to help limited human minds cope with the inherent complexity of problem domains. So the only way the mounting complexity of software could create a "bleak future" would be if it somehow prevents us from bootstrapping those programming AIs, and I doubt that will be the case.