Digital photography

Whilst there is truth in this, they are forgetting that the old pros used to take hundreds of photos for that 'one' shot (e.g. Bresson). So that aspect hasn't changed, just it's been become more accessible to the public. So it's just the next level from when digital came in ten years ago.

I completely agree. It's no new trend. It's just progressed technologically. Motors have been around for decades; combined with what was then cheap film to develop and process, they were doing exactly the same as we do.
Sure, some forms of Photography are becoming more curatorial than practical (Google images exhibition), but suggesting that in the future we will dismiss creative control in place of ease of use sounds like the theories people put forward a while ago that film is truly dead. It's not. It's a different approach to a familiar concept. Photography, but with patience.
Sometimes people want complete control as opposed to ease of use.
I'd say it's an natural evolution rather than "The future".

Just because we can fly to the top of a mountain, doesn't mean people will stop doing it by foot.