I see what is going on in the world today characterized as less a death of expertise, than a death of competency. (I regard “competency” as being significantly broader than “expertise”)
I am seeing things fail that I have never seen in my life before, at many levels. And it is a failure of competency. Ranging from having the trash picked up at your house, to running the water filtration plants, to coding software.
It concerns me. But it is clearly an offshoot of valuing people’s feelings and sensitivies more than their competence at things.
A friend and I were discussing that just last night. When we run out of competence, the world simply fails.
We’re very close to that in many areas. Skilled trades being a big one.