I agree with a lot of this, but I think it misses an important argument for why it's worth learning programming fundamentals: the eternal nature of it. Think a

I agree with a lot of this, but I think it misses an important argument for why it's worth learning programming fundamentals: the eternal nature of it. Think about it, in our fast phased industry, few things have the property that you can learn it today and it will remain useful and up to date until you retire. Programming fundamentals are one of those things. Why would you avoid learning something that will be useful your whole career. With how much time we spend learnings new frameworks, APIs, and programming languages that rarely have the same staying power, learning some fundamentals is a no brainer.