Why I'm Skeptical of “Experts”

Experts, actual experts, exist at one extreme of a bell curve where popularity is long absent. The article hints around this.

It’s also why expert beginners, an absurd concept, are even a thing. They are pretend experts not willing to abandon the foolishness so desperately essential to beginners. It’s why somebody can claim to be, and possibly appear, to be an expert but get crushed in the presence of a real expert who doesn’t dick around with the nonsense.

Experts often take the shortest path to solve the most challenging problems, which is frequently incompatible to many other people. Sometimes a code monkey is all you need.

The headline thoroughly reminds me of: "Keynote: Drop Your Tools – Does Expertise have a Dark Side?" - Dr Sean Brady (LCA 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv4tI6939q0