bilbo:
That said, a part of me cringes whenever i read a topic titled "NEWBIE PROBLEM PLZ HELP". Again, not that theres anything wrong with newbies or questions, but i'd say 90% of these questions can be answered with 5 minutes of googling, and the "NEWBIE" will learn something on the way.
And the other 10% read something like: "I need to build an arduino machine to do my homework. I want it to read the questions off a sheet of paper and control a pencil to write the answers. I already have the pencil. I need to know which arduino to buy and what other parts I need and how to program it. Please hurry because my homework is due in the morning."
To your original question, there is always resentment among people who spent time learning a skill when a technology comes along that allows people without that skill to do the same kind of work. Until about 1940 it was illegal in the US to play recorded music over the radio!