No one would argue that the industrial farming of today doesn't produce volume that frees people from the farm but like all things we devise it has a serious downside.
It's fragile in its operation. an uninterrupted transport and distribution system is needed to move food from far away growers to consumers, consumers become ever more dependent on the food system and thus subject to vagaries of political monetary manipulation of money and production.
To me the greatest downside is the loss of understanding that feeding ourselves is the principal physical labor of mankind, that personal food production can teach us many virtues.