This rope only matters for production oriented systems. Most programmers are doing quotidian processing tasks. Manipulating CSVs, processing data to get statist

This rope only matters for production oriented systems. Most programmers are doing quotidian processing tasks. Manipulating CSVs, processing data to get statistics on, plotting points on maps, maybe writing a simple automation. Almost every software engineering class I read about when I was a graduate student teaching undergrad classes spent time discussing the pitfalls of the "rope of mutability" and explicitly discussed the idea of immutability to make this kind of programming safer. I agree with another poster that it's just much easier to teach general programming skills and thinking procedurally. I do think that programmers have to unlearn some of this when writing production-grade software, but most programmers will never write anything like that.