In some ways SICP is like a medicine for left-pad-like sicknesses. By teaching how to do things oneself, it makes one less dependent on the simplest things bein

In some ways SICP is like a medicine for left-pad-like sicknesses. By teaching how to do things oneself, it makes one less dependent on the simplest things being done by others. This in turn has the potential to avoid dependency hells and bloated software. That, in my opinion, is more needed than ever, especially in some ecosystems and states of ecosystems of programming languages which some languages are quickly approaching.