This has been my conclusion as well. A lot of people complaining about the quality, bugginess and general fragility of vibe coded codebases are comparing it with their own personal, thoughtful, (and expensive!) dev process.

Having inherited a couple of hastily written but dirt cheap offshored codebases to fix, I would rather vibe code than try to untangle those garbage code bases.

Vibe coding is terrible compared to the thoughtful output of a seasoned dev, but is significantly cheaper, faster and easier to iterate on than the lowest bidder offshored. Undoubtedly most offshore coders will just vibe code anyway, so in the near term I suspect LLMs will impact these “programmers” the most.