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> schools/universities appear to systematically increasingly de-prioritize, presumably because it is seen as too technical.

The statement is correct: universities are de-prioritizing systems programming, but not for the reason you state.

Since I've been working with Universities, I've come to appreciate their fundamental problem. There's a lot of potential material to cover in a finite number of hours, which is horrifying short if you're the one to allocate them.

The amount of information one could know in our field grows exponentially with time, and we're well past the point of overflow. So yes, systems programming is getting less class time in the general track, but that's only because it's less relevant to more and more students every year, so it makes sense.