If doing CS = learning all the intricacies of how modern software works under the hood in college and web development = writing common patterns with a few mo

If doing CS = learning all the intricacies of how modern software works under the hood in college and web development = writing common patterns with a few modifications then yes, the prof is right. Modern web dev is mostly passing json around while using common patterns in frameworks like React. My cousin with zero college education was able to get an 80k a year job doing web dev after spending a year doing free bootcamps online and working a few open source projects.