I agree, and I also share your experience (guess I was a bit earlier with PHP).
I think what's left out though is that this is the experience of those who are really interested and for whom "it's not satisfying" to stay there.
As tech has turned into a money-maker, people aren't doing it for the satisfaction, they are doing it for the money. That appears to cause more corner cutting and less learning what's underneath instead of just doing the quickest fix that SO/LLM/whatever gives you.
I think what's left out though is that this is the experience of those who are really interested and for whom "it's not satisfying" to stay there.
As tech has turned into a money-maker, people aren't doing it for the satisfaction, they are doing it for the money. That appears to cause more corner cutting and less learning what's underneath instead of just doing the quickest fix that SO/LLM/whatever gives you.