Have some empathy. Even if it's not certain, there's a non-zero possibility that a large number of developer jobs (especially those focused purely on coding) will go the way of factory workers and switchboard operators, and if that happened it'd be a very tough transition for many people.
I think there's just droves of people who came to software thinking it was the new stable, solid, good reputation way to make money sitting in front of a computer.
I saw so many people who were not following what they liked but "a good choice".
Now many are scared instead of excited and/or skeptical because they don't trust their own self and ability to reinvent all the time. We do change a lot of practices in short periods of time. This is similar to an extent. Learning and guiding this new world is extremely interesting. You don't need to lie like a CEO either. Just solve, guide and build the new challenges.
