[seanmcdirmid]

The analogy doesn’t really stack up, flying a plane is nothing like designing software or even managing software systems. Imagine if aviation had a few million kinds of planes to worry about where pilots were expected to modify their planes in flight, in might begin to resemble IT.

[TuringTest]

That's the reason why CS degrees teach core principles, not a collection of every possible platform and technology.

[seanmcdirmid]

Yes, and teaching such very abstract things is very different from teaching flight.