Anything you can learn for free online is NOT going to get you a job.

I'm fully I.T. proficient, from building and repairing computers to website building, do I have a piece of paper to say so? No. So I don't get the job. Simple as that. - anyone who has looked for a job recently knows this so anyone suggesting doing this has not looked gor a job for a very long time. This makes the advice useless and out of date.

Website building in and of itself is dead; free website building platforms are all over the internet and anyone can use them for free and the results are pretty good. Anyone suggesting building websites for a living, therefore, as either never built one or did so a bloody long time ago.

Tl;dr: the advice is shitty and shitty advice is worth less than no advice at all.

What this is, is older people who have probably had their entire lives handed to them, by eay of having decent parents, or an inheritance, giving advice for the following reasons:

1: They genuinely believe they're being helpful.. A bit naive but still honourable.

2: They're issuing unfollowable advice on purpose, so that when anyone points out the flaws, they can pour scorn and derision on them and that makes them feel superior, which is what they wanted in the first place.