I think the difference here is that you can access so many parts through online shopping but also access a lot of knowledge.
Its more possible for a nerd to puzzle the things together. Im not saying its easy, but compared to back in the days, your Motivation would be low to even attempt such interesting routes, because back then everything was more expensive and hard to find.
Maybe… when Biology booms similarly to LLM models like GPT… then we would see a bug fixed in the plants, which absorb CO2 pretty slowly with a protein building block and thus create an extreme amount of that protein instead of fixing the protein. Which means, if we fix the Protein and modify all plants to create and use it instead through DNA manipulation, then we could have a brighter future than we are now imagining (maybe only a bit less dystopical is what I mean)