Programming has also become way more accessible though to be fair with friendlier languages like python, & scratch, compared to harder languages like Assembly, Basic, Fortran, & C, etc. On top of all the learning courses, certifications, Khan Academies, W3 School, Stack Overflow* (*unfortunately contemporarily considered irrelevant), youtube tutorials, etc. I’d say the pool of devs has increased but the pool of competent devs has theoretically decreased. A single1980 dev from Nintendo, IBM, or Apple could go line for line against a modern day team of Devs at Microsoft easily.

Devs in 1980s from IBM and Nintendo were pretty bad too. But we only hear about the one or two that actually made things work. The other 1000 devs just added pixels and screw the code around :)