I am old-school and I've learned from micro electronics to computer languages, ofc not to the extend of an academic education but good enough that I only need real specialists to help me.
but I think Roger Jin made a good point. I also know some counter arguments about blackboxing and how often externalities backfired ....
I will just say it depends on what your focus is and what you want to achieve. And even than you would've to really audit your payments / resources.
So you can actually create "real world" scenarios and make real assumptions / assertions about it.
I'm curios what the common denominator will be :)