Also bearish on programmers keeping up on their fundamental algorithms, rather than trying to throw NNs at every problem.
Besides interviews, at least 90% of developers have no need for 'fundamental algorithms'. The library being used uses them in some way sure, but the vast majority of devs simply need to know how to use the tool, not how the tool itself is developed.
And the other smaller problem was using a hash array instead of a hash map. You don't really need a mental model of multiple algorithms to know o(1) is faster than o(n).
The whole thing is more of a sign of how poor coding practices must have been at Rockstar for such a bug to not only make it in, but persist for years.
Thinking back to a recent-ish discussion here about the (very elegant and efficient) algorithm behind Shazam, and some of the comments here being along the lines of "haha, that's so quaint, nowadays you could just use a neural net". Nevermind how that would even work as well.
Or programmers excited about neural networks forgoing the much simpler, and in many cases completely sufficient, computer vision algorithms built into OpenCV, in favor of trying to train their own model from scratch.