Horse shit.

Plenty of my relatives don’t have hot SV titles, and yet have successfully navigated the console / prompts / command line.

So in general: Citation Needed.

Somehow your anecdote seems to be better than mine. I've only worked in two other countries, aside from the US, and 4 distinct industries, and, again, except in SV, no PM or functional QA wanted to even get close to a terminal. Closest thing would be Excel, and always going through the formula UI.