This is the same line of thinking a lot of ‘coding boot camps’ seem to take- why learn 4 years of computer science and engineering fundamentals when you’ll just be using node.js in the workplace?

A dangerous trap IMO- both are valuable but incredibly different. The former is teaching a narrow-scoped trade as opposed to learning a full-fledged engineering discipline. The latter is much more generalizable and equips you to understand / build / use most tools going forward, rather than overfitting use only to the current fad of high-level tooling.