The issue that I have with this "skill issue" argument is that it is essentially "screw you, got mine". Whether it is teaching programming or going up to making software, it has always been an intractable problem to bring experience, heuristics and intuition to words, something teachable, transferrable. Ok, senior engineers with 30+ years of experience say they are using it right and I'm using it wrong, what do I do with that information? Back to sink or swim, just at a massively faster pace than before.

For the part, I do believe there is a way to gain the "eyes of experience" without spending the years, just not sure exactly how.