It always feels a bit vexing when people complain about skills: Personally, we treat them as if manuals where the goal is to patch knowledge, not (typically) be a from-scratch primer.
Letting an instruction following llm deep research and iterate has given fantastic results before.
Being able to construct non-trivial Zig 0.16 programs without slowing down for version-hallucinating compilation errors is nice as a random example.