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Are you an analog EE? If so that’s surprising. Did you have any microelectronics classes where you essentially build up your own opamp, one stage at a time? Bypassing is usually covered in this class, or in its lab, especially when discussing PSRR of the system.

Digital systems classes can cover it too, when going over power distribution, but that’s usually a graduate level class.

The digital VLSI or signal processing tracks of EE might not require this stuff anymore.

It's in Horowitz & Hill. What was your introductory textbook?

Thomas/Rosa/Toussaint. Horowitz's book is way better though.

This astounds me. Trained as an EE in the early 80s. Can't imagine teaching digital design without mentioning decoupling.