It says «technical» problem, and probably implies that other technical problems could dramatically benefit from such achievement.
That does not seem to be the key recipe to reaching techno-scientific milestones - coders are not necessarily researchers.
> plummeting technical literacy in smartphone-raised generations
Which shows there are other roots to the problem, given that some of us (many probably in this "club") used our devices generally more productively than said «generations»... Maybe it was a matter of will and education? Its crucial sides not being «teach[ing] the masses how to code»...