People can even practice programming on their phone with termux. Anyone can program anytime instead of having to wait to use the family computer for just an hour like back in the day. It's so easy to get mileage in.
The complexity of frameworks has increased, but the fundamentals haven't changed and the learning material on the fundamentals is more available and free.
This medium article[1] argues there is a decline of genius.
> I think the most depressing fact about humanity is that during the 2000s most of the world was handed essentially free access to the entirety of knowledge and that didn’t trigger a golden age.
But I believe we are in a golden age, innovations are made every year, life keeps getting better. Change is so frequent that it has become mundane and we don't appreciate it.
Many people are taking advantage of the quality of learning resources, and it's speeding up the development of everything.
[1] https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/why-we-stopped-mak...