Alot of its a push for practicality/catering to student's interests. IMO its a result of a really archaic education system. Universities were originally small a

Alot of its a push for practicality/catering to student's interests. IMO its a result of a really archaic education system. Universities were originally small and meant for theoretical study, not as a de facto path for everyone to enroll into in order to get a job. If it were me Id get rid of statically defined 4 year programs, and/or definite required courses for degrees, or just degrees in general. Just offer courses and let people come learn what they want. One of my favorite classes was a python class that focused on building some simple games with tkinter, making a chat client, hosting a server, because it was the first time I understood how actual software worked. Im really glad I took that class. On the other hand Id love to have learned information theory, lamba calculus, all the early AI, cognitive science, theory of programming languages, philosophy behind all of it that got us here