Being capable gives you options people without the skill cannot see.

Options are not visible in the abstract, they appear only to someone who could actually take them. A person with a skill sees routes through a situation that genuinely do not exist for anyone without it, which is why two people can look at the same circumstance and see different numbers of ways out.

When you feel you have no choices, consider that the shortage may be capability rather than circumstance. Learning one relevant thing often makes several options appear at once.