If anything MS tools have moved away from clickety-clickery. That was something they were pretty much famous for back in 2008. MVC and EF are just a couple examples of moving away from this patter. This is nothing but imaginative revisionism.
Don't get me wrong, this type of thing drove me from the MS ecosystem a while ago now but they do move largely in the right direction, just too slowly for my tastes.
Agreed - EF code-first, Nuget, and ASP.NET MVC in general are excellent steps in the right direction away from excessively tool-oriented / ultra-bundled / abstracty type things. The very dark days were pure ASP.NET web forms with controls, DataSets, DataTables, ClientScriptBlocks, and the like.
A lot of things in VS are wrappers around very well-documented CLI tools, e.g., svcutil, and I don't begrudge these tools for doing a lot of heavy lifting.
Don't get me wrong, this type of thing drove me from the MS ecosystem a while ago now but they do move largely in the right direction, just too slowly for my tastes.