I'm not going to reach, but there must be parallels to this in other industries. In the US those JavaScript developers are probably paid enough that they shoul

I'm not going to reach, but there must be parallels to this in other industries. In the US those JavaScript developers are probably paid enough that they should know more about the giants whose shoulders they are standing on (to the extent that it would provide us with better technology) but in general yeah, abstractions are a very powerful thing.