> who, today, can write or optimize assembly by hand? How about understand the OS internals? How about write a compiler? How about write a library for their fav language? How about actually troubleshoot a misbehaving *nix process? All of these were table stakes at some point in time.

All of these were still table stakes when I graduated from small CS program in 2011. I'm still a bit horrified to discover they apparently weren't table stakes at other places.