Honestly, half of that they teach is more like computer science and statistics instead of data analysis.
What I mean is that they have you spend weeks and months learning data types and 'for loops' when in reality, you don't need those to get insights from data. There are other toolsets (namely: dplyr and ggplot) that don't require you to know control flow, etc. If you're a developer, I'm sure that sounds strange, but believe me, you don't need software development style knowledge. What you need is to be able to do data manipulation and data exploration. You need to be able to turn data into insight.
Said differently, these courses are teaching statistics and CS in R. What they should be teaching is data manipulation and data visualization right from the start.