Master anything is rare - always was.
Lighting is a sore point: how much is overkill? I always, in such matters, think of one Sante D'Orazio who remarked that whenever he sees a lot of lights on a gig he feels oh-oh! that's a bad sign! I tend to agree, and if anything, it's a blessing that digital has given us: we really do have a better chance to catch natural atmosphere. Of course, some studio work is totally outwith this kind of subject matter/natural treatment opportunity. (God, that sounds like a modern salesman!)
Then there's one of my other top guns: Peter Lindbergh. Looking at his making-of videos I get the distinct impression that he loves to create tents on beaches, bring along trucks of lights, and then do it all available without a tripod, often against black canvas that could just as easily - much more easily - have been strung up in the studio. Great stuff: impress the clients but get great pictures your own best way! ;-)
Wet printing was an art as much as craft: if you did enough of it every day, and I mean in the hundreds of hand-made prints a day, you soon, say within a couple of years, developed an instinct for both exposure and development. It became second nature and you could chat with other printers about something totally else and yet make good work without consciously thnking about it: you just were able to do it. I never did spend the same time on digital priniting - it came along long after I'd stopped printing anything seriously. So, when I did begin to play with it, I was rather disappointed. I could make very minute alterations that would have been absurd in the wet, but the thrill was gone, and art replaced by simple mechanics of try until it's right on the monitor, then tweak after that when it's dry. Which was also true of matt wet prints, if you were unlucky enough to have to make them sometimes.
So yes, you're right, except for the ability to see: it isn't something that's easy or difficult: you can or you can not, is all that's to it. Just like my broken, musical heart stuck within a non-musically-able body. How it goes, is all.
Rob