they don't want people to have command over powerful symbols because it makes men smarter, that would be bad for universities
they deliberately make people lost, even your thought of "upfront" teaching which might but maybe not include the current status of throwing 50 formula questions at students for years,
when it has to do with maths oriented people should be given the primordial understanding that every historical mathematician was working with, knowing some basic enough greek, beginning with symbols and deriving just simple things and binary and incompleteness, etc.. instead we've made a few generations of absolute fakes with ZERO taste for symbolic beauty, because some symbols are not permitted by the party.. does the number 2001 or 1984 scare you?
LLMs do not know what a number it is. public affairs and government are bean counters. these are conflicting ideas that any regex script can handle better.
evil people have to draw charts on how to interact with their minions rather than being an upstanding human being who has tried to read a few icelandic poems before...
