[naishoya]

Sad truth: Yes.

Yes, it has fallen off this far in the last ten years.

If you look a little further back, say to 2006-ish it's far worse than that.

Back then there were 'bright' middle-school ROV team members writing C and Ada+Spark for Arduino-board control-by-wire small craft to perform simulated ocean sample collection and tool manipulation tasks and winning in the unlimited class against university competition at international championships.

Now the "Profession" consists of teams using ChatGPT to cheat on basic coding tasks and "make nudify" of famous people from their work machines.