That’s a failing of the education system, not a victory. Math education is absolutely terrible. There’s no building of foundations and fundamental relationships

That’s a failing of the education system, not a victory. Math education is absolutely terrible. There’s no building of foundations and fundamental relationships to provide people with easy learning. It only gets worse further up the chain. It took 3Blue1Brown to make the connection for me between i, the unit circle, and e. They seem fundamentally linked, but no math education ever put them into the same sentence other than to give a few rote examples of famous equations. Maybe my education was just garbage, but none of the stuff in k-6 was built upon. They threw out my foundation in numbers and handed me a list of valid rules in the form of equations and identities. If you do the quadratic formula, you get the roots. Cos^2 + sin^2 = tan, etc. I was on the track to math, sure. But that’s because I was good at memorizing useless trivia and utilizing it on tests, not because I was good at math. Same goes for most of my classes. There was one dude that actually got it, but he definitely didn’t get it from our teachers.