tbh even my mother wanted to learn coding, her exact wording was "i have to learn programming too"

i think its a great idea, but i told her the same i tell everyone:

"you need to have a good reason, or a problem you want to solve, otherwise you're wasting your time"

and now that i think about it, it's not really different from any other study out there. you ask the people why they learn it and they tell you because someone told them they'll get a job. and what you have is hundreds of thousands of masters and ph.d good for nothings, which are nothing more than factory workhorses. some professor or company gives them a task and they do exactly that.