Yeah but now they're using npm to install a million packages to do things like tell if a number is greater than 10000. The chances of the programmer wanting to understand the underlying system they are using is essentially nil.

Yea, they are just much higher level programmers… most programmers don’t know the low level syscall apis.

nah, we have long had other disciplines using the CLI who do not write their own software, e.g. sysadmins