I get where the author is coming from, but (I promise from an intellectually honest place) does it really matter?

Modeling software in general greatly reduced the ability of engineers to compute 3rd, 4th and 5th order derivatives by hand when working on projects and also broke their ability to create technical drawing by hand. Both of those were arguably proof of a master engineer in their field, yet today this would be mostly irrelevant when hiring.

Are they lesser engineers for it? Or was it never really about derivatives and drawings, and all about building bridges, engines, software that works?