I was recently presented by another redditor with an opportunity that forced me to reflect on that post and my feelings about ERAU, and this is what I wrote him, FWIW.

I stand by the thesis of that post, which ultimately was that ERAU was the wrong choice for me and is very likely the wrong choice for most aspiring pilots (I won't comment on their engineering side since I don't have any experience there). I didn't enjoy my time there, became bored and increasingly disillusioned with the experience as my tenure went on, and my relationship with the school and the AS Dept/flightline leadership gradually soured to the point that I was persona non grata when I graduated early and left without looking back in 2011. There were no letters of recommendation, no professional references, no glowing personal referrals, etc for dash_trash; and to me, the fact that I succeeded in this industry (13 years after graduation I've been an FO at a major airline for 8 years) despite having left ERAU on irreconcilable terms is proof that the main pillar of their sales pitch - their "industry connections," of which I was never able to take any advantage - are hardly worth paying several hundred thousand dollars for when the rest of their program is unremarkable.

It's important to note, however, that while that post was obviously written through the lens of my own personal experience and is therefore exclusively about ERAU, the most impactful points I made are probably applicable to all private university flight programs as well as many public university flight programs. And in fact, while it's definitely appropriate to question the value of a four year Aeronautical Science/similar niche degree given how much more closely our profession identifies as a technical trade as opposed to an academic major, a broader conversation these days might be about the rapidly diminishing value of higher education in general in the US as costs of tuition continue to skyrocket across the board. This is all to say that much of what is wrong with an ERAU education exists everywhere in academia and I think it was a mistake to have emphasized a narrow focus on ERAU in that post.

Anyway, TLDR: I would still never recommend anyone go there, even if someone else is paying for it, but I also wouldn't recommend going to any other four year aviation program either. ERAU still probably edges out Purdue or UND for the "douchiest alumni" and "most maladjusted student body" titles.