Maybe your argument held more water in the time before calculators became mandatory in school ?

I have this vivid memory from littlegirldom in which my dad was kvetching about the state of technical customer service (CompuServe iirc, lettuce join hands and feel old). He was used to the completely inept being forced to work at McDonald's and the like, but there'd been a perceptible shift in that yesterday's McDonald's flipper was "doing technical service" now, and McDonald's was employing some new sort of sub-bovine, and it's probably going to get much worse, and jesus trying to talk to stupid people sucks.

He was right, of course, and I think it'll bleed into your second footnote, too; "Pi Day" and various other mass learning theatre circlejerks have put pi, certainly to six, and probably more like eight or ten decimal places, firmly in the mouths of the herd. As far as I know the imperial system's still taught as though US kids couldn't swim in water described by the metric. But certain points of actual data, like pi.phonenumber, inasmuch as they're easily memorized and worshiped as patron saints of Dunning-Krugerism, can't meaningfully distinguish people from fucktards, and the points on that list won't stop growing.

It's the facility with which they're used that's important, that isn't solely an artifact of memorization, that can't be faked. In other words, it's not how many decimal places of pi you've got in your head, it's how you use it.