Who said it's my assumption for code I generate? We're talking about how I evaluate code other people generated. If that wasn't my default assumption - then you should never trust anything I create because I would be naively trusting other people to maintain throwaway projects.

Are we losing our accumulated engineering best practice knowledge? Yes. Have you seen the quality of new hires recently? The ones who've cheated their way through school and don't know what a for loop is? People that have those skills aren't letting them atrophy but the chain of transmission is in crisis. Breaking news, sometimes things suck