If you want to be a pilot, learn some aerodynamics - if you want to be a physicist, learn gyroscopes.
That is only valid up to a certain point, and reality has shown it has an equally dramatic downside: the overthinking pilot. He crashes quicker than anybody else.
A pilot needs skills, not theory. Theory is required to let the person understand and train a certain required skillset, but it is what it is: background foundation. Otherwise Usain Bolt would be an expert in body dynamics. Or the Euler equations would be written down on every pilot kneeboard.
You might feel "better prepared" because your "theory" is of another level. The same applies to you unfortunately. There is a limit to what you know and apply. At the end of the day what the "theoretical" pilot needs to realise is that his "aerodynamics" is nothing more than fluidodynamics with a tuned down vision on compressibility (we consider it incompressible for a lot of our thinking). Once we enter that zone things get quickly rough for many pilots, especially when discussing rotor dynamics.
Keep it simple, that keeps it safe.