Honestly, the idea that you are surprised
I am not ”surprised”. Nor am I pretentious enough to pretend to have certainty. If I had expressed certainty, then that might suggest surprise. But I did not.
What I have seen is that gen z resists anything with a up-front difficulty. They largely favor GUIs and web-based WYSIWYG editors (e.g. Google Docs) over tools like emacs, vi, and LaTeX (yes, even in a science and tech college). So in my relatively small sample population, there is no cause for surprise. But globally I might still expect some big-brained ppl among gen z to take the path of deferred gratification, and realise when a difficult tool requires an up-front investment but pays off in the long run. But from what I have seen so far, deferred gratification is becoming a lost concept. There is a widespread fixation on short-term easy progress.
Childishness doesn’t imply they’re young.
Hence the purpose of the thread. It would be useful to know, b/c I often can’t tell a manchild from a child when I can’t see them.