You’re still going to wind up assuming a lot of baseline common knowledge that, while it might be stuff you find interesting and have come across in pursuit of your personal brand of geekery, are likely not actually necessary for the job.
Just consider that there are people - perfectly intelligent, capable of learning - who don’t actually know what ‘GPS’ stands for. They maybe don’t know that the GPS system is separate from their phone’s cell connection. They may not even know that satellites are involved. They may have not taken enough of an interest in space technology to have internalized how satellite orbits work, to have intuitions for how orbital speeds and altitudes are correlated. Or they may have picked up a common misconception at some point in the past about how cellphones work, thinking cellphones are always talking to satellites. So they might have made some reasonable intuitions about how GPS works that - because they haven’t been exposed to the true answer - cause them to make some erroneous assumptions that seem like dumb mistakes a poor engineer would make.
Not having had the opportunity to come across those things is not the same thing as not being able to incorporate that knowledge into your worldview when you encounter it.
Just consider that there are people - perfectly intelligent, capable of learning - who don’t actually know what ‘GPS’ stands for. They maybe don’t know that the GPS system is separate from their phone’s cell connection. They may not even know that satellites are involved. They may have not taken enough of an interest in space technology to have internalized how satellite orbits work, to have intuitions for how orbital speeds and altitudes are correlated. Or they may have picked up a common misconception at some point in the past about how cellphones work, thinking cellphones are always talking to satellites. So they might have made some reasonable intuitions about how GPS works that - because they haven’t been exposed to the true answer - cause them to make some erroneous assumptions that seem like dumb mistakes a poor engineer would make.
Not having had the opportunity to come across those things is not the same thing as not being able to incorporate that knowledge into your worldview when you encounter it.