Dayvi Schuster says it all in the subtitle of this post on the demise of dev culture: "From tinkerers to metric seekers: How the shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity".
The curosity and creativity he laments the loss of are still alive in other spaces such as retrocomputing and makers.
https://dayvster.com/blog/dev-culture-is-dying-the-curious-developer-is-gone