Would you care to exemplify your statement?
I recently spent some time doing component level work in an Avionics workshop. the average age of the people in that workshop was approaching the 45 year old mark. In the past most Avionic LAEs understood the systems they worked on down to component level. Now? not many do. in fact so few people now have the level of skill and knowledge required for that level of fault finding that it is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain manpower levels in workshops outside of the OEMs. In fact some of the shiny new B2s have less systems knowledge than quite a few of the unlicenced avionics mechanics they supervise. not a good situation is it?