They teach that kata is something that you do at tournaments to kill time while waiting for the Kumite. They get Black Belts, open schools, and teach whatever of the kata they can remember. It is just not important to them. I suppose that if I had never been taught to love kata for what they are, I might feel this way. The third level of kata is spiritual.
Some people seem to take to a certain kata from the beginning.
They can do all the others well, but there is something magical for them about a certain kata. It is likely that this kata represents an element of life that is key to them. Spiritual people working their key kata represent a type of beauty normally only seen in the higher levels of Dance. Most practitioners never take the leap of faith required to reach this step. Over the next year or so, as I master the technology required, I am going to put all the katas on the computer.