you could say that about natural language as well, but it seems like having computers learn to interface with natural language at scale is easier than teaching humans to interface using computer languages at scale. Even most qualified people who work as software programmers produce such buggy piles of garbage we need entire software methodologies and testing frameworks to deal with how bad it is. It won't surprise me if visual computer use follows a similar pattern. we are so bad at describing what we want the computer to do that it's easier if it just looks at the screen and figures it out.

Someone ping me in 5 years, I want to see if this aged like milk or wine

i replied as much to a sibling comment but i think this is a way to wiggle out of robots.txt, identifying user agent strings, and other traditional ways for sites to filter for a bot.