The current pedagogy and curriculum is nowhere close to the “most efficient path” (nor is it the most intuitive, best organized, easiest to extend, ...). It’s just an arbitrary history-dependent path people happened to come up with, mostly centuries ago, and “refactoring” any of it is almost impossible.
It’s more like our current public transit system: it gets some people where they’re going, somewhat on time, but it’s generally pretty crummy and full of historical inequity.
It’s more like our current public transit system: it gets some people where they’re going, somewhat on time, but it’s generally pretty crummy and full of historical inequity.