That responsibility is on us though. We must be the masters of our own minds. That isn't to say it's not challenging, and some companies seem hell bent on making sure their workers are as ineffective as possible.

Agreed. Newport's book makes a strong case that deep work is increasingly rare, valuable, and meaningful. But it goes way beyond the "what" and the "why", providing the "how", in the form of specific, pragmatic, actionable guidance for achieving just that. Anecdotally, it's been working for me.