Understanding enough about how a system works is super important. But I'm also not naive: I'm never going to fully understand all of the internals of V8 and the TypeScript compiler. And I think that's okay.

I think there's far worse examples, like the 500+ accounts on /r/experienceddevs who continue to yell at everyone how much more productive they are with ChatGPT and how they're getting two weeks of work done in two days. I assure you, they know little to nothing about the black box they're feeding prompts to.