I had a similar conversation with a friend, who works as an Amazon engineer. He was bemoaning this issue, and saying that the old school engineers were better because they knew everything all the way down to assembly and the microchips.

I pushed back gently and reminded him that this is actually how human progress works. Because although those engineers may have known assembly and microchips, they probably knew nothing about the process by which the chips were manufactured, and probably don't know much about the transistors or underlying physics.

So in that sense I'm not really concerned about this aspect of AI. It's natural progress that higher and higher level functions are built on more and more abstracted layers.