Readit NewsLeetCode was never about LeetCode, it was always a stand in for culture.
It's now a signal for baseline compliance. That's generally good for companies that require mostly operationalists.
The problem is that anyone can learn to leetcode. If you're interested in doing something new and not just warehousing CS lawyers, you're gonna have to ask better questions than that.
2) Which game is it? Roblox is generally geared towards children - it's not exactly a mature game or audience. The gaming sounds like less of an issue than the choice of game. I would actually try to find out more about the game and what interests them about it.
My personal opinion is: hands off, supportive, but make your thoughts known - they are their own person and not every mistake leads to a life of disaster. If they got into a great school, they will land on their feet one way or another. But 19 is pretty old to have a video game issue, so it might be a symptom of other problems.
That being said, not everything is dark and there are plenty of open source work going in EU.
What gave you that idea? In fact, I was under the impression that Germany has pretty strong protections in that arena.
I do feel like functional programming reached peak hype over 10 years ago. LtU barely seems to work at all anymore.