The barrier to entry for a lot of this stuff has been greatly reduced, given that all the things happening on the back end are inherently complex. But the ability to easily prototype these things means it will be easier for students and designers to tinker and think of new solutions, even if it isn’t a direct route to production hardware.
Autodesk has also done a great job of some of it’s PCB prototyping tools in a way that is easy to learn in an interactive manner. Once you start to combine simple eletronics with some basic code you can start to realize that many of our “magical” devices are actually simpler than they may have seemed.