There’s exactly the the same situation between medical and science students. The medical students just want to know that, say, insulin can reduce dangerously high blood potassium levels but aren’t bothered about the mechanisms, whereas the biomedical students want to know how.Engineering students just wanted to learn and master methods, they were not really curious about learning how methods was constructed and why. They didn't ask as many "why" questions as the science students, who wanted to understnad the methods constructing principes, for the purpose of improving them.
This is the difference between applied and pure subjects. Perhaps this applies to the various shades of martial arts too…