Meh. It's toxic in the way development is toxic. There's a ~5% group of pragmatic systems thinkers, and a long tail of dudes on craigslist building vuln heavy PHP crapware for 25/hr.
But everything in the world is like that! Pizza, burritos, laptops, blue jeans, 3d printers.... it's just the way the math of life works out. Most ponies aren't pegasus. I don't think it's representative of the decline of society, I think it's representative of the distribution of society. And that's an impractical thing to get worked up about.
I'll admit, it's a little lonely though, having the groups that are best qualified to talk about the problems you like, but they're totally disinterested/distracted.
