People making roads and building powerplants also take government money. Do you expect them to prepare people for software dev jobs too? Just because companies

People making roads and building powerplants also take government money. Do you expect them to prepare people for software dev jobs too? Just because companies decided to start requiring degrees because they're too stuff to pay their own staff, IMO they shouldn't get to divert universities from their original mission, which is education and research. Afterall, those are also important to society, and if they don't do it, who will?