"The needs of the business" - the phrase to qualify anything regardless of people or quality.

In this age of "AI can do anything" there are many people who are being assaulted by this phrase in one way or another. For some junior echelons of developers, they are literally being replaced by AI tools that are capable of doing a number of thier jobs (Microsoft made 9000 redundant on this basis earlier in the year of 2025). For the world of web development, we have been aware of a hugely financed push from various "no-code" systems being pushed on to the market for the last 5 years or more. We have become aware of them because of clients who have come to us with a "website" produced through these tools, that they could either not "manage" or wanted to do other things (which of course you cannot).
Unfortunately we developers do not really speak normalese and so there is always a disconnect between us and the neuro-normals that takes on a shape that ranges from insecurity on both sides to downright hatred, something developers are used to but something that lies at the core of this current devolution; these new systems are aimed at the neuro-normals so they believe all they are told and think they see. The human mind convinces itself of what it sees, filling in gaps and missing out other information that doesnt fit with the picture it wants to see. In this case that means they see the websites these skill-free systems produce and are convinced they are great and quality. Suddenly from the era of bespoke sites that had to be pixel perfect according to the design, nobody is questioning the differences in the product produced compared to the design and are then singing its praises; suddenly a normal can produce something that is <i>great</i> without the need to even talk to a goblin developer. Thus they do not even realise they miss the technical input from one of skill and experience and so "it looks brilliant" is enough for it to be classed as the best thing ever. Within the business I work for, at a time that we were praising our designer for switching tools to XD which was finally enabling them give us all the frills we had been asking for (for years), the no-skill production team and the skill-free tools got the credit instead. It was all lumped in as if it was part of the no-coder offering (Webflow), the fact that it was now being incorporated into the design in the first place has just been ignored (the mind filters out what it does not want). Oh well, bad timing, given a business view which is not interested in the details.
There are many around the world who are facing similar iterations of this "devolution to the dummy". Part of this process, for us, that the bean counters dictating this devolving try to leverage terms like Luddite at those who do not take kindly being told that the needs of the business involve them de-skilling into a office junior, those who have the audacity to question their careers being derailed. For the record the Luddites smashed machines which did the job more efficiently and faster so were opposed to progress. Because the stake-holders see progress as purely about money that the lesser product IS progress purely because it is producable faster, forget the quality.
So here we are, not only are the lower echelons of the development world being assaulted but also the senior tiers where the goal-posts are moved to not bother with quality anymore, lesser makes more money.

Unfortunately, the question "do you think these are good?" receives the common reply from these business stake holders that "the clients do".
Conversation over.
There is no argument so suck it up buttercup you have been devolved by "needs of the business".