SICP: The only computer science book worth reading twice? (2010)

I don’t quite get the cult status of SICP. I read it and it’s a fine beginner programming book, but nothing more.

Just so we're clear, this is a "beginner programming book" that has you create a scheme interpreter, then a register machine simulator, then a compiler out of your interpreter that will then have its compiled code run on the register machine simulator, by the final chapter.

This is probably the part where you'd step up and post a link to your repo with solutions to the exercises to back up your talk, but generally I only see this sort of casual dismissal from people who haven't actually worked through the book.

I commend your righteous indignation. Made me smile. Flame on!