This sounds very frustrating! But I don’t think new employees like you are the problem people are complaining about.

I recently finished grad school (got a Masters degree to help me change fields from non-profit work to something with a higher salary because I’d like to afford to retire someday). My company insisted I had to relocate to one of their hub offices (luckily they did pay for the relocation), only for me to WFH because none of the professional development programming was actually happening and there was no desk for me. Now, 6 months later, they’re requiring 3x a week in person to “ensure a cohesive culture.” At no point during any of this was there any onboarding beyond an HR training about how to use WorkDay to request our PTO. I am a hard worker and eager to learn, but even after advocating for myself, trying my hardest to be self-starter, and flagging that I need onboarding to get up to speed, there’s been nothing. I thought RTO would help, but everyone I work with is based in different cities, so now I’m just driving an additional 2 hours each day to get right back on video call. I did work between college and grad school before COVID-induced WFH became prevalent and remember how much I was able to learn from watching others, etc. I feel like now I’m in the worst of both worlds…. I have do the commuting and get none of the benefits.
I probably sound angry and that’s because I am, but maybe this provides a window into the flip side of the experience.

Cooking apps did not teach my child to cook, or to clean up after herself in the kitchen.

This resonates with my experience. I have had entry-level non-lawyers try to lecture me on labor law to comic effect. No, the organization does not have to pay you more if you choose to work remotely from a HCOL area; no, the organization is not legally required to pay for your internet service; no, there is really nothing you can do that will create a legal requirement for you to be immediately promoted to the same rank as someone who has 25 years of experience and is an international expert in her field. I have also found that although entry-level employees are no less skilled or knowledgeable than they were before the pandemic, they tend to be much less aware of how much they have to learn and much less willing to learn it. I have mostly observed this attitude among entry-level employees who went straight through law school or grad school after college, and not in employees who worked for a few years between college and law school or grad school. I also see it in my nephews who recently graduated and work in tech (FAANG and startups).