It's not about learning hard things before fun; it's about learning it at all. Many folks, like OP, say that they should never want/need to understand such thin

It's not about learning hard things before fun; it's about learning it at all. Many folks, like OP, say that they should never want/need to understand such things at all in their career. That they are superfluous. Sure, you can do that, but you can't convince me that that's not troubling.