It does. The majority of what's popular and gets attention in programming is things like languages and frameworks which do the best smooth talking. The whole point of CS is to focus on the aspects of programming that aren't just vogue trends. With any field or aspect of modern life, language skills are the gateway to privilege and software engineering is no exception. But here it's respect for the math that stops it all from spiraling into a bunch of bs. You can't fool the math people.