Indeed. I have banged on about this at my blog — Systemizing autism and poor explaining, Hierarchy of authorities — and in my recent book, Not Even trying: the corruption of real science.

In the areas I am most familiar with — medicine and science — apprenticeship was a strong element in my training a generation ago, but has been pretty much abolished. Hence skills have pretty much disappeared — and replaced with merely following protocols (even worse, protocols written by those who themselves lack the skills they purport to embody in the protocols).