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I see that hypothesis, but it glazes over the more glaring transition - widespread adoption of cheap electronics, generally speaking.
The iPhone premiered in 2007 at something like $300-500. Most people couldn't afford that. It was another five years before you started seeing rudimentary budget brand smartphones.
We've got far more tech literates today thanks to the abundance of cheap hardware. The expectation for tech literacy has risen with this proliferation.
And that's why auto shops no longer exist or are run exclusively by geriatrics? :-p
Quite a few millennial age auto mechanics exist today. Quite a few GenZ/Alpha aspiring mechanics exist.
You just don't find them in the upper class suburbs or state university campuses.
Why would auto shops cease to exist if a generation of people became less inclined to fix their own cars? You think ALL millennials stopped fixing cars?
Tech adoption is not tech literacy.
We can ask research questions like, “of those who have access to computers, what percentage can use a mouse?” Zoomers who use iPads and phones struggle to use a mouse. This problem is as common as it is amusing. Just an example.