I think our CC targets their material fairly well for their students. What students need to realize is that the content is at a CC level (higher than regular high school - less than AP for science/calc). It will give them a basic foundational knowledge, but if they plan to then transfer to a school at much higher levels, they will have a bit of catching up to do considering most incoming students at those levels have completed AP, so intro courses are designed accordingly unless majors are allowed to use AP credit to skip those intro courses. Even then, AP covers more and goes deeper than what I’ve seen from many of theses CC classes.
It doesn’t matter if a student learns the deeper material in a freshman class or in later classes, but switching from one type to the other can cause significant problems as that material gets missed. If they are majoring in something else all together, it doesn’t matter if they get all the deeper material TBH.