Thanks for your reply, I agree compeletly everything you said, especially this line:

"this is worsened by bootcamps/universities misleading people by teaching them checklists that employers don't care about" <--

This seems to be a demand and supply problem for good instructors. There is already a small set of designers that work in tech that are willing to work for bootcamp, even if they do, not many of them are great teachers.

This causes a dilemma as more and more bootcamp are coming out and the demand increase, there simply isn't enough potential instructors in the market, hence bootcamp must lower the standard of instructors.

A lot of time, bootcamp founders are not designers themselves so they can't really judge whether the instructor is good or bad.

I had this from my personal experience where I was approached by a bootcamp asking me to teach when I was only 2 years in the field. I also heard from some of the mentee that some bootcamp literally asks the bootcamp graduate to become instructors.