First of all don’t think cnc operator’s or programers have no skill. Your just not in the right machine shop. I ran a 150 and 120mm horizontal boring bars for 27 years and various verticals as well after transitioning from 15 years of manual machining. I can manual program at the machine control. I can run cam programs and can stop if the program is cutting the wrong shape before it gets fucked up. Complex programs are run through a graphics program before material is cut to spot errors, you have to know what you are doing. The 100 other operators I worked with also knew what they were doing. I will agree there is a shortage of skilled labor but we are out there. Money is our motivation. Anything you can do on a manual machine, I can do on a cnc more accurately in half the time including fudging things in.