House wiring and Shakespeare are completely different subjects. (I’d expect someone professing Shakespeare to avoid such a straw man, but I see your point!)

Most people don’t need mathematical statistics, but far more will find meaning/interest in the immediate applications of lighter statistics than the another-math-class-full-of-equations that calculus feels like to many.

Anecdotally, most universities are scrambling to add lighter data science courses to their humanities majors. These all teach basic stats, and many ignore the low-level calculus required for those methods (again, speaking of the humanities versions here).