This should be repeated ad nauseaum: Just because CNC tooling is available, you wouldn't get rid of your wood/metal workers. You give them more scoped tasks, expect them to finish sooner with more standardized output, and... you let them experiment a bit on the side. Perhaps not with industry grade tooling unless they want to pay for fancy tooling, but like DIY, and then, you lure nontechnical people in by telling them how much you can save with DIY. Of course it doesn't matter to no techies that some of the finishes they want are truly gruesome handiwork, but hey, they are a part of the DIY community now!

That's the way. Anything else shows that they don't know how modern economy works. And let's admit it, as a bunch of IT/software people here we are terrible at this.