Historically I definitely do think that there were a lot of engineers who upskilled by sticking their nose into random discussions, peering over shoulders, pest

Historically I definitely do think that there were a lot of engineers who upskilled by sticking their nose into random discussions, peering over shoulders, pestering senior devs at lunch, and other social activities. I am very concerned that the socialization of computing, the wide skills that go into IT beyond simply whatever the ticket in front of you is, are going to be- well not lost, but- much harder to develop & find. This reduces the fun, interesting, social side of IT, & emphasized the dry, mechanistic, industrialized aspects of computing.