To further this point, I know someone (who had little to no code exp) who at the start of this pandemic built an entire app to help his company deal with processing attendance and all the other things that suddenly appeared out of no where, using nothing but PowerApps and other O365 products.

You could interpret the comment as:

Students, our future developers and power users, should not be locked up in their perspective, but be set free to choose the best for their future endeavors.

Sure, use the best tool. But the reality is nothing comes close to what Microsoft is building. As a consultant, when an organisation is already heavily invested in M365 then a PowerApp-based solution is a no brainer except for specialized requirements (eg low latency, complex or big data processing, etc.) The pricing model seems to be the only major issue I can see right now.

I can’t argue with that. That was not my point.