You are describing the distinction between a scientist/engineer and a technician. Technicians only need thin slices of knowledge about the underlying abstractio

You are describing the distinction between a scientist/engineer and a technician. Technicians only need thin slices of knowledge about the underlying abstractions. The problem with _aiming_ only high enough to create technicians, though, is that you create a good chunk of _operators_, instead, who make do with both thin _and shallow_ slices of knowledge, making them poorly suited to any kind of generalization.