Sounds like you’re gatekeeping to be honest. People don’t need to know irrelevant concepts or hear stump the chump questions. If that’s how you approached it, great! There are lots of successful approaches and people shouldn’t be chastised because they took a different path or are interested in a different facet of the topic.
Honestly speaking, never had any professor or researcher ever introduce NNs through graph theory.
GP here is out of their depth.
Lmfao What college did you attend?
You’re not communicating in good faith. Thrash all you like.