FWIW, there are plenty of students who take DE and don’t care a whit about weighting. My son’s former HS weighted his DE courses, but that had zero impact on his decision-making. He took Japanese at the CC because he’s a manga / anime fan, and because French 1 at the HS was painfully slow and deadly boring for him.
At the new HS, not only are grades for DE courses not weighted, they don’t factor into his GPA at all. He doesn’t care. He’s still taking several courses a year through the CC.