> It amazes me that some of them have never even heard of the existence of tools like that

I'm not a recent grad by any means. I have heard of those tools and even used them on occasion. The problem is "on occasion". There's no way I want to keep relearning awk every time it might be useful.

These days, though, LLMs are a saving grace. It's rare that I ask it to provide me with a command line to solve a problem and it gets it wrong. I still have the burden of verifying, but it's a happy medium between your expertise and my writing everything in Python.