Agreed. Basically, open some random piece of code. Try explaining it in English with perfect precision. That's what "coding" in natural language would be like. Way more verbose, open to misinterpretation, harder for engineers to follow, still impenetrable to non-engineers, and with the added possibilities of hallucination at code generation time.

LLMs are great (sometimes) for conversational editing where there's a fast, iterative back and forth between description, code, clarification and touch-ups, etc. But trying to avoid code entirely eventually makes everything harder, not easier.