[lamontcg]

Explicit access levels keep on getting eroded.

Generations of programmers come up writing web services where the router forms a hard API layer and they don't see the point in public/private/protected any more, because nobody is ever linking against their code so it doesn't matter.

[pseudalopex]

Generations of programmers wrote application code where access levels didn't matter. The concept of public and private API is relevant in web services even when language access levels aren't. And erosion is not evident to me.