Bosses understandably want to commoditize programmers.
Speaking of "strange tools", Rich Hickey mentioned the phenomenon of helping commoditize yourself by shying away from the unfamiliar (in Simple Made Easy).
Everybody wants to commoditize programmers. Commoditizing is how you build mass production, mass production is how you get cheap accessible goods, cheap accessible good is how you keep 7 bln people fed and reasonable comfortable. I get it that for a professional programmer the threat to his priesthood status is unpleasant, but it's where it is going, and it is inevitable.