I think there were posts on this pretty recently.
Yeah, despite carries having a multifactoral etiology, S. mutans is necessary for the initiation of the vast majority of cases.
Because a single bacterium is responsible, it stands to reason that we will eventually suppress it. Whether the bacterium eventually overcomes the efforts put forth to suppress it would matter little to the generation of dentists who were practicing at the time the drug was introduced.
I guess the question is just whether you believe the treatment and delivery model will be developed soon enough to make a dental education unworthy of your time. I don't think it will. If you think differently, there is always medicine.