Programming languages have always been a necessary evil. A way to translate human intent into something a machine can execute. Strict syntax, rigid rules, brackets in the right place.
Presentation software has had the same problem. You want to communicate an idea, but first you need to learn how to manipulate shapes, align text boxes, format charts, pick colors, fiddle with layouts. The tool sits between you and your intent.
AI is changing this. You can now describe what you want in plain language, the way you would have briefed a graphic designer ten years ago. "Put the revenue chart on the left, key takeaway on the right, keep it clean." The difference is that the result comes back in seconds, not days.
And here is the interesting bit: it does not really matter which application your AI assistant uses under the hood to build the slides. The end product is a flattened file, a PDF, an image. The mechanical production of the slides is becoming invisible.
PowerPoint is not going away, but its role is shifting. It is moving from being a user interface for a human designer to being a rendering engine for an AI. The way a browser renders HTML that no one writes by hand anymore.
We are going back to a more natural way of working. Talking to a person (or an AI) about what you want to say, and getting a visual result. The detour through complex software UI was a historical accident, not the destination