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Spot on. Even too many developers think that their main skill is recall of language/platform/tool specific niche arcana, and while it's true that sometimes having that will reduce friction, it's rarely what actually drives things forward.

Arcana are concrete and relatively easy to test for, though, so my theory is that it's a bit like the story of looking for the keys by the lamppost because that's where the light is, even if you dropped them somewhere else.