Dreamweaver was cool as a beginner because it took a lot of the troublesome parts out of the equation. But it did end up being more of a hindrance than a benefit the further you went in.

I had a teacher who told us to make a website using Powerpoint..

Turns out you save save as HTML and any links you put between slides become anchor tags.

Pretty neat, but hurt my soul to have all my classmates do that

Hmm. Dreamweaver must be what the cool kids were using instead of Frontpage.

Was that class taught by a certain woman who had a business making websites, per-chance?

Were they paying for the Dreamweaver licenses?