Chain of tools

If you’re well versed in HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript, but you’re not up to speed on pipelines and frameworks, you’re going to have a hard time.

That doesn’t seem right. We should change it.

This seems right. I feel like there’s a metaphor here I’m reaching for but can’t quite articulate…

Surely other professions feel this pain where the growing complexity of the field pinches out a certain kind of practitioner and the field becomes more poor without those folks?