I have seen this hiring, 10 years ago in general everybody fresh out of college had a good grasp of a linux box inner workings as they had fought through the install process of a Gentoo or LFS machine.
Today is fairly common for me to have to explain in detail what is needed or how things work.
Any product/platform where the relevant metric to value your interaction with it is engagement has all the incentives to become harmful for you as end user.
We should realize this, and move accordingly, does not matter how much we try to regulate it the incentives always end as harmful.
Today is fairly common for me to have to explain in detail what is needed or how things work.