Then you're not the target audience. This is intended for people who like learning things.
The target audience of this is for people that like to _think_ they're doing stuff by paying for it, to then not do anything.
It's a purchase of an identity, basically.
Which.. I guess is fine as something to cover Sebastian's expenses to enable him to keep delivering this free stuff. If you want to take money from someone, taking from this group is likely the most ethical thing to do.
He is covering expenses. Probably barely.
It seems that you want to oppose something really badly today, but you're struggling to find something that makes sense for more than 5 minutes.
There are genuinely people who enjoy learning how something works by doing smaller scale versions of it themselves. This site happens to have a much higher average percentage of them than most other places.
What's next? Are you going to give us your opinion of music genres you don't ever listen to? And tell us who should listen to them too, I suppose.
How do you think people learn to build/train models? It comes down from the sky?
My core point I think is "first principles or nothing", but, thinking about what you said, I could potentially be off there.
I might be lacking the connection to and understanding of academia and how research and work gets done there. Maybe it actually isn't possible to do this work that way.
I doubt it. Strongly. But this is a valid counterpoint. (Which I had to kinda come up with myself, but anyway)