[p.s. I'll 'retract' /g that mea-culpa. Didn't mean it in a literal sense of "apology".]
But I did not think then, and still do not think now, that they are core material in bread&butter CS algorithm courses, I consider them more of a research-curiosity, so I cant say I even thought about bringing them into the article.
What are your thoughts on that?
The claimed "time ~ experience" correlation certainly exists, and in a long established discipline, like plumbing, experience is almost unquestionably a virtue.
In a young discipline, such as computers, there is a very concrete risk of confusing experience with not-moving-with-the-times, certainly on the party claiming experience.
So it is probably very much a case-by-case judgement call ?
I consider the state of affairs to be pre-industrial / arts & crafts, at best. The atelier approach did wonders for the arts in the Renaissance. I suppose F/OSS to some mild extent provides some of the same benefits.