All that, plus the skeleton crew due to my company's offshoring is making me jaded.
When I was still a teenager I just had to have it be the complete opposite way.
Years later I could see it coming first hand, back in the early '80's after PCs came out and the industry grew so fast it sucked the vast majority of technical minds away from natural science like never before.
I already knew as a student, that I would need for everything I do to build on everything I had done before, as an advantage not everybody would have.
The mainstream was always for lots of people to get their degree, stop learning, and they'll be fine.
With plenty more who never stop learning, although traditionally concentrated in academic environments.
For me to do mostly the latter outside a formal academic effort, it was even more important for as much of my work as possible to build for my entire life.
With the personal computer boom you could see the rug-pulls that the growing digital workforce was enduring, where they often could't even use the same computer language for very long before migrating toward another fad. Which wouldn't happen if the growth was not out-of-control chasing as much dream as reality. They could afford it though, the tech debt was swept under the rug, two steps forward with one step back is still progress, and it mainly affected employees below the executive level, which has always made things more subject to fads.