Lol you must have met my nephews, potato head would be an adequate description !
While I say the young don’t give two hoots, it’s also their parents who have no idea too, over the last 15 years computing has become consumerised not too different to a fridge, I mean few care about thermodynamics and refrigeration cycles they just want their beer cold. The majority of people want to go on the internet and do whatever it is that they do, Apple and Amazon understand this and exploit their users like hell.
The old dinosaurs in this forum (including myself) grew up with computers not working and trying to figure out how to get it to work, that was just how it was, trial and error.
It’s good that you take an interest in how these things work and seek not to be exploited, these days there is a lot of information out there and people offer help freely. It can only benefit you. Yeah none of my friends have an interest in tech either, in the workplace it’s even fewer, and that’s in tech parts of the business.
Unfortunately I think exploiting technology is a niche area but consuming technology is all pervasive.