I think a lot of people, sadly, imply that they think this, even if they don't explicitly say it.<p>I recently tried to obliquely bring this up to a friend and he asked out loud, "Sometimes I do wonder if it's better to watch YouTube videos or do problems. I'm not sure."<p>This has been one piece of acedata representing an aggravating trend in my personal life. It could just be my attracting these types (which I've been fretting about since I'm thinking wtf is wrong with me then), but other examples are family members even expressing this bad habit with something as dumb as Marvel. They read forums about comics without ever reading them and feel possessive enough about the genre to get pissed when I, who...does read comics..., criticize the Disney Marvel movies.<p>I'm hoping it's just me over indexing for it since it bothers me, but yeah - I have found that there are certainly people who just consume content without practicing or implementing the thing they're supposedly learning about, and then think they've actually learned.<p>ofc ymmv - it could just be my strange social circles.