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By entire industry I mean web developers, which is a cohort that usually has more non-traditional educations and tends to think in a async mental model.

What you explained happens in Germany is pretty par for the course in the US as well for CS degrees. But even then, why the hell are we throwing a book of data structures at students? You don’t give an apprentice framer a nail gun and say “go at it!”. They’ll destroy everything. You give them a hammer and educate them when they start to complain of smashed thumbs