I don't think anyone can argue more knowledge hurts but if someone just wants to be a engineer and knows that having to learn pm skills and ux skills must be frustrating when they are spending all this money

That's the nature with college - there isn't going to be a program where every single aspect of the cirriculum is going to feel interesting or relevant to every single person. Like I said in another post, I think SE has plenty of room for criticism and improvement, I just don't really see this one as a valid one unless OP provides more concrete reasoning. 256 is stressed me the hell out when I took it but after a full slate of co-ops, I understand why we learned the concepts we did in that class a lot better.

Maybe the class needs to better explain where a skill fits, maybe they need to teach it a different way or maybe the student is right

On paper, this is a great idea, but it's one of those things where experiencing it is much more effective than hearing it. A professor could spend all day preaching about why xyz concept is relevant, but for most students, it doesn't hit until their manager asks them to sit in on a meeting with some front end folks and they wonder why they didn't pay more attention to that bit of lecture about Fitt's Law.