Comment by quietfox
16 hours ago
It is a lot of gatekeeping involved for sure. As a lifelong musician, who probably spent a few thousand hours to learn piano, guitar, drums and music production, I was shocked when people could produce reasonable sounding music with a mouse click and a budget of cents instead of endless dedication and a lot of money. I felt totally devalued and stripped of my „street cred“ to stay with your terms.
That's not (just) gatekeeping. People try to internalize a positive self image, from positive internal and external validation. Skills can also be a source of status or meaning (usefulness to others).
Taking that away compounds with the crisis of meaning we already have to make people feel more alienated than ever.
Oh, yes.
I must think of all the people who poured countless years of their lives learning all the C++ bullshit..
Gatekeeping was especially evident in MCU programming and embedded stuff. Now you get decent answers for free, instead of "how don't you know that, read the 1200 page manual, stupid!"
God forbid we had to actually spend time reading and understanding how the device worked.