I don't know if skills are actually being lost. Skilled kids were always an anomaly when it came to tech on a meaningful level. You might even be able to argue

I don't know if skills are actually being lost. Skilled kids were always an anomaly when it came to tech on a meaningful level. You might even be able to argue there's greater skills than ever before as compute is so cheap and FOSS is so readily available. I was 1 of maybe 3 nerds in a school of 2500 people, 20 years ago. Being smart wasn't deemed to be cool, computers weren't cool—doing well in class made you a "swot". The people who do productive things with tech for their own enjoyment and curiosity has always been small relative to people who just "consume" as an end user. What is being lost is electronics design skills, despite KiCAD et al being available. Also not much interest in FPGAs and DSP from younger demographics, but at least MiSTer got some younger folks into FPGAs, but unfortunately, prices went through the roof to even get a foot on the ladder.