Doing the work is getting easier. Deciding what’s worth doing isn’t.
For a long time, the hard part and the valuable part were the same thing. The hard part got easy. The valuable part didn’t move. What’s left is what was always underneath: knowing which problem is the real one, noticing early when something has gone wrong, and explaining it well enough that the understanding outlives the conversation. Those are practised skills rather than instincts, and nothing has made them quicker to learn.