This is the kind of deskilling many philosophers in the strand of technological critique (Heidegger, Ellul, Marcuse, to name a few) have discussed. It's strikes me as a byproduct of the intellectual division of labor - as practices mature their component parts get separated. Many crafts have suffered the same fate and that fate has been equally lamented.
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