I remember when universities wouldn't teach languages higher level than C/++ because "the languages changed too quickly and the 4 year degree would be obsolete by the time the students graduate". Instead, they focused purely on the low level engineering aspects of the software meeting the hardware, with only advanced classes focusing on things like AI research (pre-LLM days) or modelling fluid dynamics on specialized hardware.

Of course, this is also why most companies worth working at didn't care if you had a CS college degree or not to build a wordpress website or a SOAP/REST API. Aside from some very basic lessons learned from experience (generally understanding computational complexity and maths) most software jobs didn't need any knowledge of assembly at all, or how to write an interpreter or a garbage collector.