There's truth here — nobody cares about elegant abstractions if the product doesn't ship. But "free from craft" and "free from understanding" aren't the same thing. When the AI-generated code breaks at 2am, someone has to read it. When you audit what got deployed, someone has to follow the logic. When the abstraction leaks — and it always does — the person who never bothered to understand their stack is just dependent on a different master. The artisan who treated craft as identity might need to let that go. The one who treated understanding as the actual skill is fine.