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by csomar 5255 days ago
Exactly wrong. Imagine there wasn't a good number of experts in JavaScript/HTML5 (my field of expertise); there wouldn't be HTML5 BoilerPlate, Modernizer, Respond, Require.js and the handful of books I read. I couldn't reach the level where I am today.
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Sorry, I think you missed my point.

I'm not disagreeing that these type of experts exist. The JS/HTML5 field is also littered with incompetence as well. I get the feeling that the OP is trying to say that we culturally don't advocate these type of people anymore and thus it's a "lost art". I disagree. And for every hundred incompetent people, there is one writing a new boilerplate or book. My point is that this one person doesn't exist without the other hundred. It's unfeasible to suggest that all 100 should be experts and that there was a time when this was true.

...oh God, now we're getting philosophical...