You don't need to be an oil rig worker to understand where the opportunity lies is what I'm saying. It's possible to understand systems from a blackbox point of view and still be able to exploit them. Afterall, this is what we do whenever we hire a new developer, it's impossible to know what they know so I leave that up to smarter and talented people while I allocate the capitals and set a vision for what's required to capitalize on the business opportunity that AI presents with it's superior performance, scalability and economies to scale.
You outsource what you don't know or can't do and if you can't afford it you do end up doing it yourself. This is why capitalism works. It's not necessary for you to dwindle with all the underlying complexities when you model the business opportunity in terms of basic expenditure and investment returns.
To me, your comment reads similarly to "Much like most business people don't spend their time reading code to do the job, I question why such academic rigor is to be demanded by someone who is translating business requirements into database operations".