I am not one of those people, but man that was a good caption. Lots of people always forget it’s a “reverse scale”.

I don’t get this one

I mean, you could install a character pack that has variation and then there is nothing they can do about it.

Fun fact: it was invented by Roberto Nevilis, who did it to punish students who didn’t understand much of the content/did not want to understand much of the content. However I suppose he didn’t expect teachers to use this globally.

I do agree with your points above and who knows, maybe chatgpt will finally force schools to be reinvented and remade for the next generation to be more engaging.