This is an *absolute banger* of a long read about the omnishambles of Lambda School:
https://www.sandofsky.com/lambda-school/
It caused me to look up their current "web developer" syllabus; I think we can draw a straight line from the *horrible* education that otherwise great people are getting at overpriced diploma mills to the shockingly poor results in contemporary web products:
https://www.bloomtech.com/courses/full-stack-web-development#curriculum