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I'm personally a kind of mid-to-younger millennial (and a pretty damn good cook if I can toot my own horn)
I have a few friends who are a bit younger than me who are older zoomers. Those friends are all at least competent cooks, not necessarily amazing chefs, but capable enough to follow a recipe and feed themselves.
But the catch that should probably be mentioned is that most of those friends are guys I was in scouts with. They were the younger kids in my troop as I was aging out.
So, I (or one of my millennial peers) are at least partially the ones who taught them how to cook
And learning to cook in scouts is sort of a trial by literal fire- if you can make breakfast over a campfire, bake a cake in a Dutch oven on hot coals, etc. cooking with a regular stove or oven is kind of easy in comparison.
But anecdotally, my gen z coworkers do seem to be pretty clueless about cooking. But then again, I'm a poor judge of that because I do cook at a pretty high level and a lot of people seem kind of clueless to me in general, so I'm probably not the best judge.