bubka -“that it is a b’dieved that they have no choice about, but ideally it wouldn’t exist.”
Let’s take on for a moment that you’re correct that they Paskened this way because it’s a B’dieved, but who says anything has changed? Your advocating no Secular studies, but who says anything has changed? They aren’t here to say the situation has changed and now we shouldn’t have secular studies.
If anything, logic dictates we should still have secular studies because of Niskatnu Hadoros.