Help! I don’t want to be job ready in 3 months or make 6 figures.

I might get some negative responses on this but I would consider a computer science degree. BloomTech is constantly talking about it as an alternative for College, but not everyone going to college wants to get a job right away and college provides a safe place to learn things for the sake of learning. Bootcamps across the board don't train people with the fundamentals because they make job guarantees and everything they do is focused on getting a job so I disagree with the comments about how you can do what you want to do at a bootcamp and learn what you want to learn. A lot of bootcamps are taught but recent grads and not people who deeply understand theoretical computer science. Even the ones with great practical instruction, like Codesmith. Although maybe I'm over pivoting to theory and history and you are somewhere in the middle.