At some point in the past it strikes me people could have made the exact same argument about any higher level language beyond assembly.
The best answer is really if you ask chatGPT "how has the forging of steel progressed since it was invented?".
To me, you are basically worried for no reason about what happens when the apprentices no longer spends their time heating and hammering iron to remove impurities and increase carbon content. There is a trade off involved here. I am sure the apprentices of old understood at a base level what was really going on in the forge better than a modern apprentice but that hardly is an argument against progress.
The best answer is really if you ask chatGPT "how has the forging of steel progressed since it was invented?".
To me, you are basically worried for no reason about what happens when the apprentices no longer spends their time heating and hammering iron to remove impurities and increase carbon content. There is a trade off involved here. I am sure the apprentices of old understood at a base level what was really going on in the forge better than a modern apprentice but that hardly is an argument against progress.