Are you being pandered to or is the author on to something? You don't get good at stuff without practice, conflict resolution, independence, adulting in genera

Are you being pandered to or is the author on to something? You don't get good at stuff without practice, conflict resolution, independence, adulting in general, the age at which people are able to start practicing these seems to always be creeping upward to the detriment of everyone except the single-issue do-gooders who get to decry success because there's less teens pregant, smoking or whatever their shtick is.