... I mean, what tools one is supposed to be using, according to the advocates, seems to completely change every six months (in particular, the goto excuse when it doesn't work well is "oh, you used foo You should have used bar which came out three weeks ago!", so I'm not sure that _experience_ is particularly valuable if these things ever turn out to be particularly useful.

Far ahead in producing bugs, far ahead in losing their skills, far ahead in becoming irrelevant, far ahead in being unable to think critically, that's absolutely right.