I'm sure you mean well, but this comment epitomizes the problem. Formerly, Unix was fairly modular, open to comprehension, and had excellent documentation guiding the user. Now, everyone who isn't a paying Red Hat support customer is not just on their own but thrown to the wolves.
But why would anyone be on their own in the age of stackoverflow and a thousand other user support avenues.
And there are good books and endless awesome posts/blogs about Linux. The new low level stuff is not covered as well obviously. (And I think it's a shame devs don't communicate well, but they are not perfect, nor they are paid for writing good docs, only for code.)
Furthermore, was the modularity of Unix ever really exercised? Are there success stories replacing dd, cp, ls, or parts of lower level stuff?
