We teach maths too much, we should just give gold bars to every student so they already win at life. Trigonometry in particular is so ingrained in many aspect

We teach maths too much, we should just give gold bars to every student so they already win at life. Trigonometry in particular is so ingrained in many aspect of applied science that not learning its fundamentals and then pushing to its higher level concepts is going to seriously reduce adaptation capability in students. And if you somehow never need to rotate things, it's a good training in applying theoretical rules to concrete problems. In my university, after 2 years of increasingly complex trigonometry, we were left with 3D engine programming and to the fact that opened my mind forever that theoretical mathematics have a purpose.