It's true. We have an older specialized piece of equipment in our lab that stil runs on a Windows 3.1 machine. The other day the computer crashed and had to be rebooted, and it starts in DOS. My students would've had no idea what to do when the computer started up with a black screen and a C:\

I'm not even sure that they would've known what question to even ask a search engine or AI to find out what to do.

Growing up (I'm tail end Gen X, born late 70s) you had to know the back end of how computers worked out you were screwed. Nowadays computers and devices just work.