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I think those days were easy to use within the zeitgeist. Even advanced versions of those tools would struggle against the data needs today which have become incredibly bespoke. My skill set extends all the way from my actual industry (finance) to the boundary of software development. I also have data, big data and cluster usage skills (slurm etc). I don’t use everything every day and obviously I cannot be a specialist in most of this stuff (I concentrate on finance more than anything else) considering the incredible range, but this is just the past 2 years for me.

I cannot imagine a less specialized future looking around today where some nice tool does 80% of my work. Not because the work I do is difficult to automate. But because the work I do won’t match the work other industries may do (beyond existing generalizations of pandas, regression toolkits and other low level stuff). There’s no point building a full automation suite just for my single work profile which itself will differ from other areas of finance.