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This reads like you're upset that your identity of a computer expert is threatened by the fact that a teenager could reach the same level of competency in an afternoon of youtube tutorials.
Really? As long as I've been building my own PCs, (2011) it's been fairly plug and play, with no more than basic knowledge or research required, and I would hardly say over a decade is "a few years". Also, technically speaking, techy people ARE laymen unless they're literally IT/design/engineering professionals as well. I agree that it's becoming much easier to find out what parts are optimal for a budget and put together builds in general, but idk your post comes off as very gatekeepy and a bit cringe. >

So you'd rather have parts be less openly compatible? >

I feel like pcpartpicker has been around forever >

Why is this a bad thing?
Actually, building a desktop and understanding crypto currencies is no rocket science. It never was.