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I think it's intentional. Where you had to think to do something, you'd inevitably learn to think. Where you had to put soul and wisdom and aesthetic feeling into your work, you'd inevitably touch those things for other parts of your life.
There are people higher in the society, who think lower castes shouldn't have that and will be fine with knowledge and expertise just sufficient to do their jobs.
They wouldn't be so hellbent on this particular technology, if they didn't see how relatively recent progress changed that curve of expertise for radio, electric engineering, all engineering, computer science, automobiles, home appliances, and what not. So they see this consistently works for 25+ years.
So they work to deprive us of practice that allows to do more in all those directions. There's a moat that could as well be an abyss between what we know and what we'd need to know to make relevant things. That moat wasn't there 25 years ago. The path from a novice computer user to someone knowing all DOS interrupts and what DMA and IRQ are was less than the path from a novice computer user today to making a simple GUI application.
(I've got executive dysfunction, so feel these things more, but I'm certain they are true.)