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I think you're assuming a level of Unix knowledge that less and less new people in the field are going to have.

Someone who's tasked with maintaining shell scripts better be familiar with the shell.

that's kinda his point.

Kids today no longer know the shell. They think just writing some yaml files in ansible is sufficient. Giving them a shell script won't help at all.

>Kids today no longer know the shell.

Sounds like Kochan and Wood[0] need some love (and royalties).

Or is learning stuff deprecated these days?