> All of a sudden I have seen people do some really impressive stuff with DWARF files, eBPF, custom network drivers, custom crypto and really old computing hardware. Many of these things were previously off-limits for lots of developers. In some cases (eg: crypto) you were even pushed away because those things were intentionally gatekept by the people in the know.

Before at least some of us were forced to understand stuff, because without understanding it was not possible to do stuff that we really wanted to do, and some those got passionate and kept digging, and some of us even made even better stuff based on their experience.

Now no one needs to understand anything, and now we will never have better stuff.