I'm a tech. Now you explain to me how "coding" is going to do anything for your kid. Is tying their shoelaces going to make them into nuclear physicists?

You're being spun a yarn, don't be so naive as to believe what 'employers' tell you what life is all about.

By your logic, does it then follow that we must still know how to make vacuum tubes by hand to understand the machines of today? Because if you want to talk logic, that is the product of the factors you state.