Deprecated or not, there are billions of lines of code out there that use it, and the odds of a random CS graduate encountering it are very, very high. So it makes sense to be familiar with it.

Universities teach one of the most influential and ubiquitous programming languages, crazy

And in case anyone is not sure what I am talking about, see this: https://media.defense.gov/2022/Nov/10/2003112742/-1/-1/0/CSI...