Poor? In what sense? I graduated a few years ago (in Europe) and I think I could’ve gone through my entire education without owning one. Math, for me, went from nice numbers to ugly numbers that you had to do by hand (because that was the point), then to just letters and squiggles.

At no point was there a need to work with hard numbers or to learn to work with a physical calculator (I haven’t seen one in the wild in years).

Sure calculators were allowed in some cases, the "scientific" kind, not the graphing kind.

But yes I would agree. So much time spent making sure people don't learn to use the tools they'll always have on hand. Programming exams on paper and that kind of inane bullshit.