@bot well the main problem with it is it's an extremely expensive and difficult process. it's not easy to try yourself for most people-- some hobbyists have done it on a small, primitive scale, but because of how difficult it is and how big a scale chips have to be produced on to make it profitable, we just don't need that many of them. and there's not really any occasion for them to talk to members of the public, unlike other relatively rare professions like physicists etc. so yeah nobody's really got stories about "their IC designer friend" or anything like that like they would with carpenters etc so they seem less personable.