Nice typo but 100% agree, and if you dare tell anyone some freshman college math is necessary to understand some moderate-advanced subject, you're "gatekeeping" knowledge.

This is the thing with math and programming. The anti-math programmers are right: you don’t need much math to have a career as a programmer because lots of applications (e.g. web pages) don’t need much math.

However the more math you know, the more tools you have available to tackle problems and the more diverse the set of projects you can tackle are. You’ll spend less time reinventing the wheel and you don’t need to come up with shoddy heuristic solutions to problems because you can formally specify the problem and apply the right tool to solve it.

We're talking about a specific subset of people working in Computer Science.

No one right in their head would claim that knowledge of 'only' HS math is insufficient when it comes to having a successful career in Front-End, Back-End, Ops, Cloud etc and many other positions pertaining to web technologies. I have no idea what people in this sector do but I'd highly doubt advanced math knowledge would even benefit their career considering they are remaining there.

However the fact that there are people on this very platform saying that those who say Linear Algebra mastery is "gatekeeping" to people aspiring to become Machine Learning engineers demonstrates, at the very least, poor critical thinking on their part about the inefficiency of self - learning math only through 'pleasant' means such as:

    I will only watch this cool video with animations,laying on my bed, about this hard math concept instead of grabbing some paper and pencil and carefully study some high quality  textbook. I need to built intuition ASAP !!!

as well as showing that various different AI Bootcamp: Become an ML expert in only two weeks!! type of cashgrab scammers are sadly growing exp. in popularity.