Fun read and it's totally wild that people's emotional comfort with text drives a lot of their love or hate of unix.
I would concur with the adaptation that the modern predictor of unix aptitude is attention span (which is lessened for a number of societal changes). It takes a fair amount of delayed gratification to get comfortable with unix. I was able to intuitively use Mac OS Classic at age 3, and I can see modern youth have the same young intuition for touch devices. But unix takes a bit more discipline and only rewards those who persevere. I suspect that’s why modern tech employers like it. They’ve learned to pick up the cues for people that will perform well in roles that require perseverance and holding a lot of mental context.