"massive skill gap"

> AI use presents us (and the commercial software world as well) with a similar problem: there is a massive skill gap between "gets some results" and "consistently and sustainably delivers results", bridging that gap essentially requires starting from scratch, but is required to achieve independence from the operators of the AI service, and this gap is disrupting the pipeline of new entrants.

This unfortunately matches my experience, both professionally and as an F/OSS maintainer. Except "massive gap" is arguably better expressed as a "impassible abyss"