People who learn the tool alone are substantially unhireable.

When you hire a developer you usually need them to also be at least be something of an expert computer user, especially if they're going to be working on a small team without 20 other experts to micromanage them.

Over-reliance on the IDEs leaves people appliance operators that are lost when there isn't a magic button to press.

It isn't just an issue in the job market. "Programmers" who aren't sufficiently advanced computer users can't advance their own projects in academia either-- they're stuck working on precooked assignments. I suspect this is one of the forces that has resulted in academic research being utterly starved for competent software engineering (though the main one remains that competent software engineers can get stable high paying jobs, and academia provides them with neither).

Always good to get students to dig deeper, even if it's for their initial 1st/2nd semester, and especially if they're going to be programming long term. But ofc let them have the freedom to choose afterwards.