School analogies:

Prison:
It's a prison, but it's advertised as a place where words are not a prison. To trick the people who forgot what it was.
And FUTURE, CREDIT, DISCIPLINE, GRADES are measured by how well students can obey arbitrary rules by teachers or the mark scheme. Ranking is based on doing something one absolutely hates to be in - after 10horus of lost freedom of a precious human life, the difference is where studying or homework (which comes BEFORE studying) is done. Measuring a human by how much self-inflicted torture (in addition to the school-forced one) is the most gigantic pain of gaslighting of school, which devalues ALL ELSE NOT RELATED TO IT in comparison.

YouTube:
Yeah, it might cause short attention spans, but that is rather because school is archaic and outdated for so long. Social media esp. YT has lots of personally important and valuable knowledge (otherwise why would u click on it?). The difference is that it will not sleep-deprive you; you are free to leave, it costs (almost) nothing, you don't have to deal with noisy students, no forced homework, will not punish for slowness, can speed up beyond school-teacher-pace voices, no need to stand at always, can change volume, can rewind, video input. School: Any questions or hands-on requested experience not in the syllabus is axed. Distractingly good is often a sign of interest. This is an assumption that school no longer exists :) And the counterargument that it kills motivation to do schoolwork DIES. AI: "Distraction" can only exist if there is a forced obligation you are supposed to be doing instead. Me: Before social media, I bet many students also hated futile repetitions of learning for grades too. This is not a new problem. Also, the 15-second ad is far, far better than a 10-hour pseudo-murder of energy, sleep, and joy of life itself.

Microsoft:
Microsoft makes setting up Windows hard. For the workplace/school? Really, really long interview, plus exams that span a few YEARS!!! Plus the cost is FAR higher than any PC on the planet. And Microsoft collects data? Well, some schools and workplaces collect their entire students'/workers' browsing history, or keyloggers,r or even screen recordings, and the data of tests, and reveal it in a report card! And tell their parents. Plus, you cannot escape your classmates. They know your embarrassments. Yet there are TONS of complaints about Microsoft. As such, logically,y school is so, so many times worse!! Adults breaking down over data collection and slight UI errors; students get 6 hours of "NO PC" every day. Naturally, with much more effective tech, schools have to ban it. Because they clearly still want a prison from the 1900s where the syllabus rules! At the very least,ast even with Rogue Micro, soft you can choose to, or not  to use a computer. Students get banned from doing such things often. Even a cookie ban needs an ads law to reduce 1 click; what the hell. Also, if you HAD the choice,e you would naturally choose the most efficient choice. Students have no choice, even if great at homework or view it as a waste of time b.c. eithewaythey are too bad or too good still have to. Perhaps if you hate bad software, you have a poor attention span too.