I'd say it is the opposite. Back when I first got online, most people calling themselves programmers were self-taught and they usually had a very strong intere

I'd say it is the opposite. Back when I first got online, most people calling themselves programmers were self-taught and they usually had a very strong interest in learning adjacent skills so we had plenty of discussions about best practices and data types on IRC. And then the mass-manufactured 6-week bootcamp "consultants" arrived and basically just used whatever algorithm shows up first on StackOverflow. Those folks are mostly in it for the money, so they won't learn about algorithms in their free time because there is no direct link from knowing them to a salary increase. They also rarely participate in group discussions, but instead jump in and interrupt everyone else to ask for help on their specific problem. And that's why some of the old self-taught people now look like 10x engineers (in comparison to those bootcamp consultants).