If everyone learns to code, coding will not be a high-paying career anymore. Also many people can't code, because it is too detail-oriented. If one line of code has a typo, it doesn't work. Some coding also requires advanced math skills. Really not well thought out at all. But what more can we expect from the establishment?
Tech companies just want to lower their wages by flooding the labor market with coders. It's not like there are just thousands of programing jobs just waiting to be filled