I agree. Skills should be transferrable. I've seen friends who can do mail-merge in Word but cannot navigate the internet on a desktop with the ease and speed

I agree. Skills should be transferrable. I've seen friends who can do mail-merge in Word but cannot navigate the internet on a desktop with the ease and speed I can because they learned mail-merge in school but never bothered to browse internet on a laptop/desktop (instead they use phones all the time).