Been resisting have a take on that tweet for a few hours now but here is my take: it’s bad
You can absolutely get into making games without a degree, just like you can get into writing or making films or acting or music without a degree. But maybe there’s some valuable reasons one might choose to study a craft professionally.
I hate that this is going off so here is something I said about game dev ed that I’m actually happy with https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/brkeogh.com/2019/06/22/are-games-art-school-how-to-teach-game-development-when-there-are-no-jobs/amp/