This is a surprisingly toxic take. The goal of a program is to teach you real world skills grounded in understanding theory. If someone understands how to take

This is a surprisingly toxic take. The goal of a program is to teach you real world skills grounded in understanding theory. If someone understands how to take a complex math problem and turn it into a computer program, and knows to reach for sympy - that feels far more useful and implies a solid enough understanding of the problem at hand.