I work in the field. The reason has not been mentioned yet.

It's because (for an unknown reason), having coding and software development in the training mix is really helpful at most other tasks. It improves everything to do with logical thinking by a large margin, and that seems to help with many other downstream tasks.

Even if you don't need the programming, you want it in the training mix to get that logical thinking, which is hard to get from other resources.

I don't know how much that is true for legal or financial resources.