This is sad but it also means there is no real competition emerging from younger generations for my job. These people are incapable of anything resembling thinking. It also partially explains why no one under 35 or so can troubleshoot at all. Their brains are optimized for clicking and drooling. You’ll never be able to puzzle out a thorny OSPF config issue if TikTok and YouTube is all you know and you can’t even read anything longer than a “Subscribe” button.
We, as they say, have done fucked up.