@ludicity maybe I moved in rarefied circles, but the big divide I've encountered is software engineers who understood things in general vs application "developers" who only knew one stack or app, and would frustratingly be convinced the sun shone from Redmond or wherever.
The advent of LLMs has disrupted this a bit, as they're more likely to answer in general terms, or contextualise the offering from the blessed stack as a poor imitation of a far superior open source equivalent