Oxidation induced effects are a function of pushing the limits of nm scale transistor architectures though.
It's becoming a wide spread problem in the industry. For decades technology-minded folks have been told to go into software development because that's where the money is. The field of custom IC design has been both short on applicants and has had huge barriers to entry. As a result, the experienced engineers are retiring and there aren't enough juniors coming up to replace them. Skills and institutional knowledge are being lost.
There is a lot of focus right now on tools such as AI to allow junior people to produce things at an expert level based on encoding that expert knowledge. It would be great if it worked, but so far the results aren't there.
Source: I develop EDA software for custom IC design.
This is craftsmanship. John Doe can use Python to create software, and so can you, yet John Doe's code runs better and faster while your code crashes all the time.
People seem to forget that a craftsman's ability to use tools is a big factor in the final product.