Welcome to the world of job obsolescence, where software occupations have gone for the past 15-20 years.
As for these New York Slimers, they can put their desk stuff in a cardboard box and get marched by HR out the door like the rest of us who don’t have J-school degrees.
If they want something close to ironclad job security, they should go into the useless HR field, where it used to be all about issuing paychecks but now it’s “sensitivity” towards mentally ill degenerates to keep equally useless lawyers off of the corporate posteriors.
Copyediting is not obsolete. People who don’t know it well just think it is.
You might as well say script doctors are obsolete. The movies would be making you laugh even more than they do now, and I don’t mean the comedies.
People don’t know how to do plumbing either. If they tried to make plumbers obsolete . . . I won’t go on . . .