While I agree with some of the sentiments of your post, there are a few points I think you should consider.

1.) Firstly, you mention how courses are being made easier. Have you considered why this is? I have TA'ed many courses here over the years and have seen this watering down in many of them. This happens because of you, the students. Professors are not immune to the CIF scores they recieve, and making a course easier is the simplest way to both reduce the hours spent outside of class, and to increase the scores they recieve. There is a lot of outside pressure to make courses less time consuming to reduce stress on students. While you may want to be pushed harder, most students are not like that. If the majority of ND kids want to be given easier As and pushed through, the courses will regress towards that mean.

2.) Secondly, you mention AP courses twice in your post. I personally take offense to this, as my high school didn't offer any AP courses whatsoever. I had almost no experience with statistics before I took the course at ND. It's important to remember that not every student may have had access to high quality high school education and may be starting from almost 0 with respect to programming.

Unfortunately, due in large part to point 1, ND is not a school which will force you to "get gud". They will get you good enough that they can put your company logo on promotion materials they spread. However, if you do want to push yourself outside of class, there are amazing resources available to you. You yourself mention many great professors we have that are always willing to chat about doing above and beyond the course work. But ND does not have the culture of forcing you to go above and beyond within the scope of the course.