There are situations where one has a choice between putting in the required work and becoming competent at a task, or waiting and hoping that the task will be s

There are situations where one has a choice between putting in the required work and becoming competent at a task, or waiting and hoping that the task will be simplified so that they can approach it with their current level of understanding. Unsurprisingly, the latter is not the path to personal growth. A good example is the tech competence of the general population. Computer savvy or proudly dismissive? Now we have seen the technological improvements that allow people without tech skills to perform all sorts of tasks that they couldn't before. The drawback is that the general population is at the mercy of the providers of these magic tools. If the provider decides to increase prices or move to a subscription model, they have to accept it. If the provider adds tracking & analytics and other privacy-invasive functionality they will be outraged, and then accept it. If the provider updates their app and puts features behind a paywall or completely redesigns the UI because their designers were getting bored, those people will have to grin and bear it. e.g: Microsoft has decided to transform Windows into spyware: they can run code remotely, log keystrokes and upload them to their cloud, etc. Most people either don't have a clue or can't do anything about it, because they outsourced their software skills to Microsoft, which worked well enough until Microsoft decided that their interests are not aligned with those of their customers. JS developers are another example of this - they are prisoners of JavaScript, although I wager most of them would say that they're happy to live in their golden cage rather than in the technological jungle that they're unfamiliar with. Condemned to go along with any decisions made by Google, Github, Apple or other companies that they have no influence on, because by not challenging themselves to learn, they gave up their freedom. You mentioned that (some? most?) web developers don't even know what linking is and you support going on the same false path, dumbing down things until they are understandable to those that didn't take the time to educate themselves. This will only result in a generation of helpless individuals cobbling components together in a decent enough way to call it software.