Programming wasn't really that free and LLMs just continue that trend of giving some feelings of freedom while trading off other freedoms

Lots of people use locked down proprietary softwares and even GNU licenses have been criticized for being locked down

There are primitivist critiques of technology in general that show how technological systems require very restrictive global industrial systems

Pre-LLM eras had me hunting all over for poorly documented solutions to common problems, with vast amounts of limitations on what was possible