Quote Originally Posted by Brian_ View Post
As Brannigan pointed out, you and the people on your side of the argument are being dumb. You can't raise the skill floor on the job when the skill floor is already too high for the overwhelming majority of people.
You can if you include support that better bridges that gap, for instance tutorials that are actually worth a damn, built-in output parsers, and so forth.

As long as SE leaves any meaningful learning tools beyond one's tooltips purely in the hands of the community that gap is just going to get larger, until floor and ceiling are both inevitably cut and all but that "majority" are encouraged to leave.