Humility is the key trait that many CS grads are lacking. Personally, I attribute it to the explosion of CS popularity since ~2010. Most bio majors are still nerds (and I assume the same is true for education), whereas I think a minority of CS grads these days are motivated by passion and curiosity.
They actually teach the opposite, since humility doesn't bring in funding.
I consider 'reinventing wheels' to be a valuable educational experience, I often wonder about how could educational 'enterprises' (universities, and education companies?) leverage this to improve what they do, but then I remember that it doesn't matter what I think, just what I do, and I sure do not work for any such companies.
But it's kind of silly that "we" (as a society) are spending 300k USD to teach some of this "obvious" things to some random group of well connected americans.
then again, the dollar is made up so long as 'the future' pays back these money-creation loans we may as well spend the money this way. the alternative is going back to corporate backed research, instead of this strange contemporary VC-backed research
Reinventing wheels is good, ignoring any kind of domain knowledge/expertise is not.
If you’re running into problems that someone with a year or less experience in the area can point out and you don’t have good reason to do different then that’s incompetence not ingenuity.