a big part of growing up for me was having to find out how the fuck port forwarding works just so i could host a minecraft server for me and my friends at the time. while i sucked ass at it, i had enough motivation and assistance to get it done and felt super proud of myself for achieving that.
recently i've ended up in a position where i had to teach people how to do this, and kids these days do not understand a single fucking thing about tech or networking and refuse to lift even a finger to learn.
i could walk them through it, give them live assistance and steps, and unless i literally handhold them through the process, they'll eventually give up and try to find a "free hosting" service that restricts what they can and cannot do on their server, then have the gall to ask me if i can fix their servers shit performance despite it running on 512mb of memory and a CPU being shared between at least ten other server processes.
the big problem from what i can gather is that everything even remotely "techie" is seen as scary, because all modern computing devices are built as padded cells where it is very, very difficult to fuck up, and as a result makes it difficult to do anything yourself without the device just deciding to automate it for you.
to them, giving the address of 192.168.0.1 WILL lead to them getting hacked; to them, going onto their routers page is scary and daunting; to them, changing a few strings in a config file is "too much work"; TO THEM, the idea of moving files into the right directories is hackerman level shit.