It is not that crazy to expect people who regard themselves as advanced fiber artists to have some knit AND crochet skills
Was recently dogpiled in a forum discussing the heartless top, which requires encasing wire in icord edging to give structure and shape to a heart cutout in the piece. It's finicky as hell so I used single crochet to encase the wire and then sewed the icord on later to achieve the same clean look. I mentioned this and mentioned that it seemed like the way the pattern had it written out was needlessly complicated and was only done that way to make sure only knitting techniques were used in the pattern. It just seems kind of silly to me to use an advanced and very fiddly knitting technique in place of a basic crochet technique. People (mostly knitters, tbh) basically jumped down my throat about how ridiculous it would be to expect designers to know both techniques.
This reminded me of a creator I follow on tiktok who's a knitting pattern designer who watched and recapped the whole "game of wool" show that came out a while back. A complaint she brought up over and over again was that the audition process apparently called for people who could both knit and crochet, and she was mad because this prevented her from applying. But I think this is fair?? It's a game show so you're supposed to be showing off the best of the best, highly skilled artisans. It makes sense for them to have a focus on one or the other, but when competing at such a high level I think it's pretty fair that you know both! It's not called "game of knitting" or "game of crochet". It'd be like if cooking shows never had any baking challenges. Like yes it's a different craft and skillset, but it's still something you should know. Especially if you want to call yourself a skilled fiber artist.
The whole thing honestly feels like an extension of knitting elitism because I almost always see this attitude from people who exclusively knit. And if you're someone who only knits that's fine! But just because you don't have another skill doesn't mean it's a ridiculously difficult thing to ask for!