This idea doesn't even fail sometimes, you just end up with really wonky languages dominating certain fields with statisticians using R, engineers using MATLAB script, and just about every field making such elaborate excel sheets it may as well be a programming language.
Of course, those all have the advantage of still being deterministic and free of hallucinations, but the innards of those scripts and spreadsheets look like hell and the interface is wonky while LLMs are shiny-in, shiny-out.