Basically, the diminution of our lifelong dedication to craft and customers and our own families by media that started, maybe, with good intent can be boiled down to these few, spare lines:
The Internet — and cable television — increasingly makes DIY seem like NBD (no big deal). YouTube is packed with videos on everything from tiling a backsplash to building your own tiny house for under $2,000. And in most cases, they make it look easy. On many home-improvement shows, hosts turn shambolic buildings into stylish abodes in 22 minutes flat.
The deeper-dive article from WaPo, picked up by Remodeling (here’s the Remodeling link) gets into weeds of several stories.