Very, very strange.
THe yozei Miztrayim were uncivilized? How does an uncivilized people organize itself by family clan and tribe, appoint tribal leaders to govern internal tribal affairs, recognize a national authority figure to decide and direct issues that affect more than one tribe, organize a military, judicial system, compose songs of praise to God and play those songs on musical instruments?
How does an uncivilized people produce artisans and craftsmen capable of designing and constructing the mishkan?
Interesting how ignorance and barbarity prevents assimilation. History has proven time and time again how less developed cultures assimilate when confronted with more developed civilizations that present a more refined, comfortable, stable, and productive state of existence.
To add to what Charliehall alluded to, R. Hirsch (a major opponent of the Chasam Sofer’s approach) held strongly that ignorance and barbarity are antithetical to Torah-life. We are tasked by God to become knowledgeable, creative, and civilized; we have a duty, like all other peoples, the further human civilization and further refine our existence; we are directed not to remain in a state of stagnant ignorance; we are told to confront the world and all it has to offer us, and to judge and develop human civilization and knowledge in accordance with the laws of the Torah!