Right as I was starting to drive MapQuest was a thing. My dad had a 3rd-party GPS unit for his car but I only rarely got to use it. To save paper/ink I’d only p

Right as I was starting to drive MapQuest was a thing. My dad had a 3rd-party GPS unit for his car but I only rarely got to use it. To save paper/ink I’d only print out the instructions to get to the place I was going and then reverse them to get home (many times I made the wrong turn and had to backtrack till I found something that was on my directions to reorient myself). I drove to a lot of random places while working for my parents (real estate agents, I took pictures, installed/collected lock boxes and signs, virtual tours, etc). Nowadays I’m completely dependent on my GPS but I don’t see that as a bad thing really. I know some people do, but it’s not a skill I need, why would I bother learning the route? I’m good at quick math and especially at getting “close to” (calculating a sale price, tip, etc) the right answer but I haven’t honed my long division skills in decades (I assume I could still do it, I know the method) because I have a calculator in my pocket always. In the same vein I don’t know assembly, heck I found EE to be boring as hell, I don’t care about logic gates but I can write software without issue. Every generation stands on the shoulders of the ones that came before and it seems like every older generation hates the younger for doing so. It’s honestly tiring and reeks of “If I had to put up with X then so do you”. This is not aimed at your comment, just a general observation.