> Apparently at some point people forgot that if you don't like an API, library or interface, you can just put a wrapper on top of it.
If I were to survey the state of modern software development and try to characterize the skills lost compared to decades past, "not enough wrappers" would be nowhere on my list.
Ok that was a bit overstated, s/some point people forgot/some people forget/. I don't know what was the common practice a few decades ago because source code was not as visible as it is today, but in my experience what you see on Github is not what the average developer does. Github advertises itself as a social coding network; just like with other social networks, there is a selection bias regarding what is posted.
If I were to survey the state of modern software development and try to characterize the skills lost compared to decades past, "not enough wrappers" would be nowhere on my list.