If you consider a larger pool of available competent developers to hire as beneficial for companies (thus driving down wages), then it does make sense. But it r

If you consider a larger pool of available competent developers to hire as beneficial for companies (thus driving down wages), then it does make sense. But it requires long term planning and investment, which does not mesh with the short term profit over everything business model currently running the economy. Training is a cost that must be paid, and while both students and governments have been made to pay much of that cost for a while, that system may not function for much longer.