Nobody here was arguing that they don’t. It’s just that computing as a hobby is far more niche than it used to be. Literally everyone who used a computer used to have to be able to troubleshoot issues on their own with nothing but a manual and the machine itself. If they didn’t figure it out, they’d ask a friend who would teach them how to fix it in the future and they just had to remember or they were SOL. You don’t have to do that anymore, so those kinds of skills are less common than they were for prior generations.

I’m not saying young people with those skills don’t exist anymore. I know they do. I’m a senior software engineer and have mentored some of them. I’m trying to talk about the rate at which fundamental computer knowledge and troubleshooting skills are being acquired, not if they are at all.

Please, don’t put words in my mouth.