I'm not so sure it's an explicit conspiracy. I think it's just an outgrowth of Nihilism -- just what naturally occurs when you're jaded towards all the traditional narratives that give meaning to life.
I'm not religious and I'm certainly not a proponent of orthodoxy in nearly any aspect of life, but I always feel that trying to transcend naturally existing things is a fool's errand. One example is illustrated by our recent understanding of antibiotics and how they destroy our gut biome, and how that might be a really big problem.
You say that like it's novel...
It's been the almost universally accepted opinion in philosophy for the last 100 years or more that post-Enlightenment man is Nihilist because he denies his traditional narratives. It's the big story of the 20th century. Everything from Nazism and WW2, to the divorce rate has been blamed on it... Where have you been?
I'm not worried about "every little detail". I'm concerned with basic areas of human knowledge, foundational elements of a classical education.
I'm concerned that we're creating engineering-educated drones capable of industriously automating away our traditional roles, yet who haven't even had the proper post-Enlightenment education to understand the civilization in front of their eyes.