It's not just woodworking. As someone with over 40 years of pretty serious work in infectious disease the last several years have really reinforced what I already knew; that knowledge, experience, and qualifications count for diddlly with a large fraction of the population. Doesn't matter if you've got the data, logic and reason are not of much interest. Titles, be it "professional" or whatever count for even less (unless perhaps you count "TikTok influencer"). You need to find different ways to get your point across. Just having invested the time and effort to really master something isn't enough.

BTW, I'm not totally unsympathetic to this view-- I know plenty of morons and jerks who have MDs or PhDs.