The real beef with Algebra is it doesn't lend itself easily to Twitter, Facebook, or other social networking plus it is hard to learn and requres mental discipline. After all, it requires one to learn a difficult subject and perform it correctly to get the proper answer. That is not a popular pastime these days. It's not something you can make up and bullsh!t as you go along.
I hated Algebra. I struggled with that and all other forms of math and engineering courses, which I took for years because they were required. But as difficult as it was, it was good exercise for my brain. It disciplined me to knuckle down and concentrate and succeed in the difficult things.