Personally I don't care whether a person starts a fire with a Bic or flint and steel on all the things that can be used. If we get out and enjoy the outdoors we are having fun. Bushcraft isn't a primitive skills contest for me.
I can agree with you to a point, More often than not I use a Bic or my Zippo to get a fire going whether it's a campfire or my back packing stove, on the other hand there's no better time to practice new skills or brush the cobwebs off of those you haven't used in a while.
I no longer take on hikes that measured in miles or require gains in altitude over fifty feet, the old legs and lungs don't take too much of that stuff before the burning starts, I pace myself, make a quick camp early in the day and hang around until the sun starts to sink, to keep busy I tend the fire, make coffee, cook a meal, and polish up on my skills and crafts, I try different methods of friction fire, carve a try stick, see just how fine I can make curls on a feather stick, I really suck making cordage so I don't, but I'm good at whittling, sometimes I just turn a fair sized stick into a tooth pick, sometimes a figure four trap.
I had a friend, a mechanic who used to work on my cars, I was in my thirties, he was sixtyish or so, he was a hunter and pretty good woodsman, when he got into his late 60's he began getting forgetful, one weekend a neighbor invited Pete to go to Vermont with him to check out his hunting camp, they were out looking for deer sign and it started to turn cold, Pete got chilled, so the neighbor told him to go back to camp and he'd catch up with him, Pete never did find his way back to the camp, the wardens found him sitting against a tree, he had died of exposure some time during the night.
I know it was the neighbors fault, he knew Pete wasn't always "there", but I can't help thinking that if Pete hadn't quit getting out even in his back yard and practice his fire making skills, and put a make shift shelter together once in a while he might not have died cold, hungry, confused, and alone on that night.
That's one of the reasons I keep going and keep what skills I have as sharp as possible, well, besides, it's fun.