[WhitneyLand]

“if it achieves the business goals, is stable and performant, does it matter?”

Yes, if you want code to be maintainable over time, or to be able to evolve as a coherent foundation that lends itself to a long term direction and vision.

[zachwills]

I'd consider that part of the business goals, personally. I also think over time we will end up with more people doing what I talked about in the post, so the code that gets generated by those workflows will become the norm and will impact long-term direction/vision.

FWIW, the vision and direction can and should still be dictated by the human engineer. That's what engineers will be doing IMO vs. coding.