Why not though? I'm pretty sure many (especially this crowd) have childhood memories of playing with calculators before really knowing how to add.

A ton of natural questions arose like how it differs from tallying or concatenation, what the decimal point means, what negative means, ways to get to zero, ways to overflow the display, what even is overflow, what the other buttons do, etc.

The limitations are very obvious very quickly and their frustrations only further motivate the student to learn it properly.

I think beyond all else, what you're really proving is that this is more political ideology than a genuine concern.