It most certainly does have physical withdrawal symptoms. Perhaps it didn’t in 1960 when a lid of pot was $10 and had the same potency of 1 puff from a vape pen, but it sure as hell does today. I’ve watched people become insanely irritable and aggressive when quitting weed, suffering from headaches, sweats, and a plethora of other symptoms.
It all comes down to passion. If they love the subject then they’ll dig through the weeds to uncover the dirt. If they’re not, then it doesn’t matter what education they have, they’ll only know what they’ve been directly taught. The number of engineers I’ve interviewed who have masters degrees and barely understand the stack they work in is shocking.
The rise in pay and demand is the root cause. I’ve been trying to hire an engineer for a month and a half now and nobody knows anything about servers, computers, or protocols. They went through some boot camp or got a CS degree, but aren’t passionate about the subject, so they’ve never looked under the hood. They know what they were taught, and that’s it. Eventually I’ll be forced to just hire someone, because it appears that everyone who is passionate is already employed.
There are plenty of VPN that leak data.