This is a problem of mimicking/learning the cargo cult subject and missing the prerequisite lessons leading up to it. If expertise is defined as knowing the who

This is a problem of mimicking/learning the cargo cult subject and missing the prerequisite lessons leading up to it. If expertise is defined as knowing the whole stack leading to the top-end subject and it's relationships, then yes it's a problem of incorrect growth and therefore the pool is widened and yet has less actual experts in it. Jonathan Blow's 'collapse of civilization' talk goes into this quite a bit.