> ..kind of breaks the typical stack-trace patterns.
The expectation that iterative recursion ought to have a call stack is the problem here and wouldn't be up for debate if people had done their due diligence and read their SICP.
There is truth to this but it's important to acknowledge that exposure therapy alone may not be sufficient for everyone and will require alternative modalities.
I went from homeless to six figures thanks to tech.
I think you are missing that tech is one of the few well paying industries that doesn't have socioeconomic gatekeeping with degrees.