Philosophers think we need philosopher-kings; warriors want a warrior-king; and on and on.
Lets let one another be; learn coding if you like, and let my sister continue nursing as she is so very capable of doing.
Being an expert at multiple things may require prohibitive time expenditures, but it's quite possible to learn some of each of a wide range of subjects. They aren't mutually exclusive.
But you are missing the point here.
Software can simulate most things in this world for that alone its very useful to understand coding. You get way more buck for your money.
I'm not anti-learning. I object to somebody else dictating the set of superficial knowledge I need to learn.
(I was good at science and maths type things, so it was painful to learn as well as me being really bad at it. I failed the exam two years in a row.)
Actually thinking back, being forced to read some books that I was not interested in (chosen by someone else), and write a report about what was great about it probably put me off reading novels for a good few years afterwards. It was a like an enlightenment when someone described a book to me that sounded interesting to me, I read it and enjoyed it (even learned from it).
Each to their own but you seem to be against this for the wrong reasons.