I agree with your assessment, and I have a CS degree. I consider myself self-taught, I just happened to do a lot of it during a 4-year period. I'm pretty grate

I agree with your assessment, and I have a CS degree. I consider myself self-taught, I just happened to do a lot of it during a 4-year period. I'm pretty grateful to my school, whose premise is basically: "we're just going to set you up on some smart teams in some difficult situations. Learn your way out of it." There's nothing inherently wrong with CS degrees, since you can basically learn whatever you want while getting one, but they don't mean anything either.