I strongly believe they're more creative than us and capable of pursuing what they accomplished through brute forcing to build things that seems impossible because their mind-set doesn't set a boundary for what could be achieved.
Maths make you overthink and it leads to more and more problems. You could assume this planet is full of peoples who are similar to Steve Jobs.
In my opinion, this civilization has highest abstraction* highest abstraction and it leads to more innovations.
A world full of people with dyscalculia is possible. Let the bruteforcing be their way to advance. It's democratic.
[1] I conducted a research on an encounter with outer-civilization and it appear they are kind of heavily religious and only has advanced flying technologies. Very similar to the [2] Spellbinder series I watched years ago. It's possible that this civilization could master a standalone area and be like monkeys for other areas.
[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a34dme/this-guy-paints-the-sex-he-allegedly-has-with-aliens
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spellbinder_(TV_series)
*I speak with programmatic mind. You can build programmes without learning assembly. While this notion has some flaws, I have no way to express it further in a reasonable sense.