I think it's actually "underhyped". I think if you set aside specialists of all kinds, sooner or later it will become a basic skill that you need to function in our world, probably very much like it happened to reading and writing 300 years ago. I think no matter what the children who are born now want to become, whether that is medicin, marketing, science or banker, programming skills will be just as "basic" as the ability to read and write.
It will take another couple of decades until public schools will understand and act on this, but kids not learning this stuff today, they will be second best in almost any field they want to go into.