This probably has more truth than most unix admins would like to admin.
"Why do we do it like that? I dunno, that's how I learned how, how do you do it?"
"Why do we do it like that? I dunno, that's how I learned how, how do you do it?"
Embarrassingly, it took me a long time before I started reaching for man pages instead of Google. That has probably has had the biggest effect on tightening up my command line fu.
find is another tool that seems to get only one specific use case that ignores its rather large and useful toolset.
Now, sometimes when people watch me work in a shared session they comment on my "peculiar" (to them) usage of flipping between -h --help and man $command, because there's a whole lot of switches I have memorized over time, but even more that I just have good reference points for.
But, bar none, what I've noticed among my peers is that the people that have always bowed to quick google solutions never really have taken the time to learn what they're doing. They almost always seems to be the 'quick fix', 'get it working now, sort it out later' types.