[jachriga]

Specifically re: git, I think a more fair comparison (than deep git vs. shallow git knowledge) is about learning how to use automation tools vs understanding the processes that they automate.

Case in point, there is an employee in my office who, after attaining a 4-year CS degree, was unaware that "git" wasn't "GitHub". GitHub is so aggressively pushed on new programmers that they don't even need to know that git exists, much less how it works. Actions that don't have a large colorful button may as well be impossible for someone so thoroughly dependent on tools-in-the-middle.