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If you're a software engineer, then the Quantum Katas might fit your learning style. The exercises use Q#, which is quantum specific programming language. https://quantum.microsoft.com/en-us/tools/quantum-katas The first few lessons do cover complex numbers and linear algebra, so skip ahead if you want to get straight to the 'quantum' coding, but there's really no escaping the math if you really want to learn quantum. Disclaimer: I work in the Azure Quantum team on our Quantum Development Kit (https://github.com/microsoft/qsharp) - including Q#, the Katas, and our VS Code extension. Happy to answer any other questions on it.

Shameless plug: But these types of areas of research (what types of problems can quantum computers solve and when) has been a big focus of our open-source Q# effort lately. You can see our last two blog posts (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/qsharp/) are about the resource estimation features we've recently built for exactly this purpose. You can give them a try pretty easily in VS Code or just in the browser (https://aka.ms/AQ/RE/Docs) Disclaimer: I work on the Q# project (https://github.com/microsoft/qsharp) in a team under Matthias Troyer (quoted in the article). Entirely personal option: I do think tempering some of the hype of the past few years/decades and focusing on the areas of highest potential is in general a good thing. Progress hasn't been what some optimists had hoped for, but hardware has been progressing quite quickly & con