Letting more people write software in natural language does not reduce the work; it snowballs the amount of software that has to be maintained.

I mean, all I see is that if you say natural language can be used in the pipeline, you've just made that many more people can become programmers, which means that much more software will eventually be created, which means there's that much more software that will need to be maintained, and just becomes a real big snowballing effect.