I mean, it's not just about the tools themselves, it's more about a generalized access to culture as a whole - US media specifically is so incredibly reference-ladden (and not just recently, though it has intensified) that you need to have seen, read, listened to 'the classics' and the 'b-sides' and the 'underground' and more, to truly get contemporary stuff with all the little throwaway lines and visual callbacks and hints at other, older media... there's barely enough time in a life to fit all that stuff in, let alone money to buy or rent it.

but yea, there's definitely room for improvement after the revolution lol