For me, the main takeaway is 'programmers nowadays seem to have a life and we need to adapt to that'. Well, it's a good thing when people have something except for their work, I think. It feels like this is going to slow down the industry a bit, but I don't think it's a bad thing. Besides, we're getting better and better tools, the AI is on the rise, so maybe we will be able to be as productive as before while not investing so much time.

As a side note, I feel like I don't belong to the 'passionate' generation the author refers to, but even then I am curious enough to sometimes dig into the problem. I'd even go to a stretch to say that it's not a passion for computers and programming that discerns good programmers but curiosity, and it is more often can be seen in very different people and is less destructive as a personal trait, I believe.