I said "I have enough of this" and started to create my own bootcamp AMA

There is often philosophical discussion amongst bootcamp founders about their pedagogies. Bootcamps exist that are aligned with your thinking! But along the lines of what you said, they tend to be very small and no one knows about them, because it's 1 to 3 experienced developer + educator backgrounds teaching tiny classes. You might want to talk to the Rithm School people as they are fairly aligned with the idea of have small classes taught by experienced educators and aren't that small either. I don't know enough about your background but I'm the founder of [Formation.dev](https://Formation.dev) and you can checkout our mentor listing to see if you are qualified and interested in mentoring to see how we approach things. We're not a bootcamp or school and we don't teach anything! We run small sessions with 3 to 6 engineers and a mentor, solving a focused problem as a group (on one of many hundreds of topics) and imparting wisdom along the way. Mentors are paid per session, but at a top-tier company engineer competitive rate. And the bootcamps you DO hear abut are the large ones that scaled and hence why people talk about them more. I don't know any bootcamp that has scaled to hundreds of students or more that hasn't relied on past students teaching classes, and instructors with little industry experience. Codesmith, for example, has 50+ past students teaching as Fellows, and 20+ past students teaching as instructors, lead instructors are all past students as well. And they have some of the best outcomes on paper and reviews. But their founder has a strong pedagogy for how things should be taught that is scaled out through this network of inexperienced teachers.