I suspect at least for some (many) its the devaluation of skills and knowledge in our society, coupled with the marketing man's hype that buying the gadget will provide the means and ability.
Combined with the “pay someone else to do it” attitude, people don’t take time to learn new skills.
I know I’m an idiot, especially when it comes to electrical, but I do try to listen and learn. Course I ask a thousand questions, 900 of them repeats haha. But I eventually learn it. Or at least enough of it to be dangerous.
it’s kind of why I converted the Polara back to points when most people are going the other way. I wanna learn how to tune and deal with points. Why? Because I like learning old methods and technologies that few my age even know ever existed.