We can't deny a little importance of op amps but microcontrollers kind of revolutionized the electronics, so I don't think its that important now to learn basic things. Electronics is getting modern so you should dive with it and not stuck with basics.
And yet elsewhere on this very forum there is a guy having a problem with an LDO regulator because he failed to recognise a resonant circuit due to parasitic inductances and using too 'good' an input cap could case a transient over voltage on hot plug!
Micros are cool and all, and pretty much everything I find myself designing has at least one, because it is often the cheapest way to do the almost trivial, but then you need to control real loads and deal with real sensors and real signals, and all of a sudden understanding the fundamentals matters because it turns out that at a high enough power or fast enough edge, "digital" usually isn't.
Clock signals driving data converters for example are (contrary to appearances) NOT digital in nature, switching power supplies are basically RF design these days, and the SI issues for say DDR4 are all right out of the fundamentals.
You will not really understand how to design any of these things without at least a first course in electromagnetism, and really you want at least Maxwells eqns, which means enough maths to deal with line and surface integrals.
I have a rail switching drain modulator on the bench that is based on a whole pile of bipolar transistors, and absolutely I am using everything I know about those devices, a micro would not help in this part of the system.
Also, someone has to DESIGN those cool new chips.
Regards, Dan.