[SXX]

To be honest I was serious. Personally I believe that regular expressions is one of few tools that super useful even for people outside of IT because everyone have to extract of format some text or table data from time to time. You can even learn them just by playing game:

https://regexcrossword.com/

[TeMPOraL]

The example quoted required some mental work to unparse, so I assumed you're joking.

But in general, I agree with you. Regular expressions aren't hard, and there's no excuse for not learning to read and use them.