I disagree. Code can be/was more malleable if it's designed well, especially with pure FP. People kept on moving away from messy abstractions and OOP and more towards this idea of pure functions and composition, creating more robust and malleable software.
Now instead of aiming for robust, malleable code, people are throwing up their hands and saying, "It was always a mess, let's just keep throwing more tokens at it."
Now instead of aiming for robust, malleable code, people are throwing up their hands and saying, "It was always a mess, let's just keep throwing more tokens at it."