My preference is to work with teams of people that strive for something else than "I'll just use the magic wizard and hope it works." Others can have other preferences.

I don't have an opinion where these people develop these attitudes/skills

No, unless it's a "professionalization degree" or whatever you call it on your corner of the world.

That's the huge majority of all degrees in university ? In my country, from the figures I can find online, there are ~20k "pro" masters vs a few hundred "research" ones. It's entirely negligible (I know it firsthand having been through the research path, which was a single-digit percent of the students in the "pro" path)

It actually is, because why would I pass them during an interview if I don't want to work with them? Thus, the students will be locked out of good jobs - and it's the university's job to give the student the necessary skills to find a good job.