There will come a time when you and me will be the old guys with a milling machine and a metal lathe in our garage wondering why people don't make things anymore.
Or perhaps like the radio Hams. :-(
Aren't we already at that point? How many people can fully explain how a modern computer works, from the transistors up?
But the same is true for cars, airplanes, microwaves, HVAC equipment, and most complex technologies.
Then tried to get into forreal modern X86... and tapped out. Like, whoa.
Now they're saying kids don't know how to type b/c their primary interface is a phone keyboard.
Next step is probably Neural Link type connections where we eventually say "people used to user their HANDS to do things??"
"You mean you have to use your hands?" "That's like a baby's toy!"
They had one, but it is something like my drill. It gets dusted off once every few years when there's no other option but otherwise sits on the shelf.
There really isn't much you can't do on a phone, it's whether or not you can take advantage of the facilities offered by the laptop/desktop.
To be fair, the university had a very strict honor code and the amount of people that would try to plagiarize on longer writing assignments definitely led to pressure for professors to not assign essays as homework. Those were exclusively meant to be handwritten into blue books on exam day.
"here, do a copy... now paste... right click or use ctrl-[whatever]" boom. done.
those who don't know file structures are gonna require a little more help, but again that's not like rocket science. I could get a reasonably sharp 16 year old on that in a day or two.
It's not like driving a stick shift, in which case the noob will annihilator my transmission by not knowing; I can make the file system noobs create, delete, and move dummy files all week with no overhead.
Like it's more a way to save money than DIY (or perhaps there are STL figures that fill a niche that corporate Warhammer is not fulfilling?).