Most high level programming is more about structures and “placing things around” than people like to admit and that’s 90% of all programming today.

Although I'd like to say, "it's not", that definitely is what takes up most of my time, even though it ends up being lesser part of the code (thankfully). But a lot of that is UI designing and deciding what might give a better UX, rather than programming.

Of course, if I were not using a framework, which does all the painting for me, I would always be programming the UI and that would be 90% of my code and 99% of my coding time.
Also, I would probably take a year to complete a weekly project.

In my dictionary, programming for the UI elements has been done by those, that created the library that parses the markup language and does the paint events. They also have to manage number of separate draw calls and other GPU efficiency stuff, making it easy to just define most of he placements using markup.