@paninid @Daojoan Part of it, for sure. But if we look at the sociotechnological development of the recent world, people don't even have time to master games they play before an update completely re-wrtes everything. It's not just in video gaming, either. Look at Warhammer, Warmachine, Arkham Horror, Dungeons and Dragons. In the last 15 years there have been multiple versions of all of those game "engines" released.

New Crochet and Knitting techniques are completely changing fiber arts every few years. New tools fundamentally change arts and crafts regularly, although mastery of arts and crafts is a little different here, but it's a similar problem.

There's a constant exhaustion in extant masters and experts dealing with continuing education that is fundamentally revolutionary more and more often. Field changing events used to be rare. Now, it's common place.

There's a necessary epistemology and life satisfaction that comes from being able to master a hobby, or a craft. In most walks of life, because of the number of humans marching towards inevitable progress and this belief that we must have a complete and comprehensive understanding in order to be competent experts in a field. Largely because capitalistic roles have made that the case. We don't get to have colleagues to rely on, we have to be islands unto ourselves, otherwise we aren't experts, right?