Alternatively: do teach coding to kids (which includes logical reasoning and problem solving)

You don't want an entire generation of people who can barely operate the devices that enable and control a huge portion of their lives.

Kids will benefit immensely from being able to logically reason, and will be less afraid to repair or work around shoddy software, even if they never write another line of code in their lives.

Professional programmers dont fear kids taught to code any more than novellists fear kids taught literacy or accountants fear kids with numeracy. If anything, they know personally how important it is to learn these things.

If you scare a bunch of kiddos gonna take over your job, maybe your job is not that important.

This is not zero sum.

I would love it if future folks can write their own random scripts without needing a developer to do it for them.

I would love to see more people writing software. There will always be advanced work that needs doing. There will always be larger challenges.

I want the world of the future, where every 10-year-old knows calculus and python and is incredibly capable, and then I want to see the future we get when they grow up.

We know a fun and interesting thing and we want to share it.

You could use the same argument to stop teaching many other useful skills to kids. It's a bad argument.

this is called gatekeeping by the way and it's very annoying when you're conscious that it's happening and it's against you

Are you comfortable sharing a little information on your background and such? Adding a little context

(the comment you made surprised me)

Surely that comment is sarcasm.

If you are willing to mess with kids how is your behaviour with coworkers?

Programming is much, much bigger than writing and maintaining stuff for businesses.

It's a way to create many forms of art, solve everyday problems and automate a plethora of machines in our homes.

You sound like an accountant whining about kids learning about calculators and statistics.