This is the main issue I have with juniourization and why I disagree. I'm not sure how long you have been around the lego community for, but it seems to me that there is a discernible age/builder gap in the AFOL community which represents the lost builders of the late 90s early 00s. They were never encouraged to build by the lego sets they received. In my eyes you can still see this gap. There is a massive skill partition between those who make basic MOCs and those who creations are jaw-dropping. I blame juniorization. A missing generation of builders should have filled this hole, but instead we have an old guard which stretches from the 50s through to the mid 90s and a new guard who have been encouraged to build more by lego's revival. But the continuity was definitely broken. For a brief period lego did not appeal as a building medium, merely a plaything. That was juniourization, and it's effect on the lego community is seen most clearly in those who have never heard the word and have never built a 'serious' MOC.
Very much my own opinion...
God Bless,
Nathan