This is a constant source of pain for me since I started working 12 years ago after finishing college. I noticed when most people came to me with issues it was

This is a constant source of pain for me since I started working 12 years ago after finishing college. I noticed when most people came to me with issues it was because they were afraid or just too lazy or didn’t know they could just read the source code or docs and go one level under the abstraction to figure something out. My entire career so far i spent trying to get onto teams where others were doing the same as me but had more experience. In the years i spent on those teams i learned a lot. But as time has gone on a lot if those people have left into management which just isn’t the same as directly working with them on problems. I actually have also done the same recently. When i look at almost anyone today they have no desire to understand what is going on with the tools they are using. Further more most of upper management pushes me to enable this by building more abstraction on top of abstraction they do not understand so when it breaks I or my team can fix the actual issue. Ensuring the developers have an easy out for anything that is outside knowing their framework and some basic syntax. I always wonder if people felt the same way about me if they came from a background where they had to know assembly or other lower layers of the stack. At any rate even in the current environment I haven’t been worried about finding new work if needed. Their seems to be a very short supply of people anymore who know how things work under the hood or even have a desire to figure it out when it breaks.