These topics are not advanced...they are foundational scenarios covered in any entry level AWS or AWS Cloud third-party training.

But over the last few years, people have convinced themselves that the cost of ignorance is low. Companies hand out unlimited self-paced learning portals, tick the “training provided” box, and quietly stop validating whether anyone actually learned anything.

I remember when you had to spend weeks in structured training before you were allowed to touch real systems. But starting around five or six years ago, something changed: Practitioners began deciding for themselves what they felt like learning. They dismantled standard instruction paths and, in doing so, never discovered their own unknown unknowns.

In the end, it created a generation of supposedly “trained” professionals who skipped the fundamentals and now can’t understand why their skills have giant gaps.

If I accept your premise (which I think is overstated) I’d say it’s a good thing. We used to ship software with literally 100lbs of manual and sell expensive training, and then consulting when they messed up. Tons of perverse incentives.

The expectation that it just works is mostly a good thing.