The problem here is not the vendors.
The "problem" is that design mattered when producing code was a truly manual effort. Writing things down, aligning specs, design, contracts, all of that would mold what could come next.
Now ANY design from amazing to terrible can be regenerated and generated dozens of times over for literal single digit dollars.
Cost of tokens is NOT a problem unless you have a codebase with hundreds of person-years of effort. Not many people do.
Cost of tokens is NOT a problem unless you have a codebase with hundreds of person-years of effort. Not many people do.