Sure, our math professor has absolutely no creativity...
But that's not what we're talking about.

So, what's more important: math or language? Who is more useful to the state: an analyst or a humanist?
Let's take a look.
Language barrier.
Well, perhaps at the time of the Great Divine Retribution, it wasn't very easy for the inhabitants of the tower to communicate with each other, and then language really was a barrier.
But in the 21st century, this is not a problem. Now, every third person knows at least English. An international language. Politicians and businessmen certainly do. For those who are... incapable, there are translators and, so to speak, translation experts. And the demand for them is decreasing over time. Why? Because of what was said above. And today, from childhood, children are influenced by... hmm... "Americanization." From screens, on the radio, from posters and billboards. The mathematical aspect requires a maximum of brainpower only to understand the percentage of discounts. And that's right. Why overload the customer with trigonometry?
And due to the ever-improving and faster acquisition of the language by the country, the popularity of such humanities is steadily declining.
While mathematics is always needed. Without it, there is no progress. Without it, a person's mind is hardly capable of building logical chains and planning anything beyond harvesting and chopping wood.
Mathematics develops all the most important thought processes in a person. It teaches him to think, and not just absorb words, extracting them from memory at the right moment.
So, we've dealt with the language barrier.

Now, let's talk about our native language. My opinion is this: after a child learns a language, acquires a certain number of words in his vocabulary, say, by the age of ten (a random number), there is no further language development, or it is negligible.
Mostly, these are unknown "smart" words and terms. And that's it. In any case, I didn't feel any difference between what we studied in Russian in the 5th grade and what we studied in the 11th grade.
But in high school, literature plays a major role. I think it can instill moral qualities in a teenager, a love for poetry or books, and so on, but again, there is no development of "humanitarian" centers. Few people can write decent poems or prose. And often, literature plays not the most important role here. A person may write simply wonderfully, but he is not obliged to love "War and Peace."
It's a different story with the exact sciences. There is always something new. New ways to solve problems, new puzzles and tasks. As many options as you like. Although mathematics also has its own framework of rules. But it develops the very ability to reason and analyze, has a positive effect on intelligence and ingenuity. While literature mainly develops memory. And even if you don't reread (study?) the texts, the increase will be quite small.