I used to think that way but from my experience and observations I've found that engineers are more limited by their innate intelligence rather than their tooling. Experience counts but without sufficient intelligence some people will never figure out certain things no matter how much experience they have - I wish it wasn't so but it's the reality that I have observed. Better tooling will exacerbate the difference between smart and not so smart engineers with the smart engineers becoming more productive and the not so smart engineers will instead be replaced.
