The problem is it bloats the time and cost of education without meaningful improvements in hard skills.

Case in point I learned more about being a sports medicine manual therapist from a 6 month massage therapy licensure program ($7000) than a 3 year doctor of physical therapy program ($120,000).

Similarly I didn't learn a single thing about working as a professional software engineer from a BS and MS in Bioinformatics (Computer Science) -- no testing, no version control, no code review, no nothing. Plus, it was Java! Gross!

In comparison someone starting with no programming knowledge would be able to follow my book Career Programming and have mid-level frontend skills (paying $140,000) a year within 12 months of dedicated full-time work. And I'd be able to tell that from 5 minutes looking at their portfolio or take-home.

You'd think a PT with 7+ years of university education would be more skilled, but all that education is so far away from the clinical skills on the job that they typically end up as bad clinicians... and often switch careers to programming.