[seangrogg]

I see them as two sides to a similar coin.

Many strong graduates wind up in roles at major companies - Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, etc - where they are working with teams to implement things that do require research, rigor, etc. Their value as a contributor is wrapped up in theory, the code is just an implementation detail.

Bootcampers, meanwhile, often find themselves at younger companies that are more focused on shipping features and stamping out bugs - areas where the ability to write and ship code quickly is a priority. The differences between a b-tree and a red-black tree will be moot to them unless they're interviewing; going beyond binary search, hashmap, and bloom filter sees diminishing returns on investment in the near term for most small companies.