This resonated with me as with one of my professors, his inability to grasp the complexity of some of the tasks he was expecting his students to carry out, often led him to use "why don't you just write a little script to do that?" even when it would take more than just a little script to solve the problem. I didn't like it when he would act in this manner. And it resonates doubly with me as I've often caught myself acting the same way when I feel a student has been struggling for too long to solve something that would take me 1 hour of focused work.

Sometimes, all it takes is just some awareness to act differently when interacting with junior people.