I'm not clear on the point you're making, but I do know that reading/reviewing is often more time-consuming and harder than actually writing code - at least if you're doing it right.
Anyhow, I think we all just got too mesmerized with the LLM magic tricks and are slowly realizing that in real software writing we simply got a "slightly better stackoverflow". The claims of hyper-productivity are the same old ones of "I just copy and paste stuff other people wrote", i.e. people are just writing simple PoCs and really bad software - it's mostly bullshiters that couldn't and still can't do fizzbuzz.
The real stuff continues to be written same way as before - and this is gonna become more and more apparent as the LLM garbage sneaks in more and more software.
I'm still not sold on that. Stack overflow UI has lot of signals for a good response. The amount of answers, the upvotes on those answers, the comments,... With a quick scan, you can quickly see if you need to go back to the web search page (I've never used SO search) or do a slower read.
