Because now it's much harder to gauge how much human effort went into building a project.
Also basic brain chemistry: seeing a pack of impressive (by 2020 standards) solo dev projects a day makes it the new norm, raising the bar for the future. But now I feel like this bar is not reachable because of no way to accurately measure "impressiveness".
“tokens spent” is just not as impressive as “hours of blood, sweat and tears”