Working to expand and improve is a worthy goal. I believe before the lockdown it remained an under invested niche for those not suitable for the existing school

Working to expand and improve is a worthy goal. I believe before the lockdown it remained an under invested niche for those not suitable for the existing schooling like outright remote (rural to even rural), very ill children, or those who had especially severe social issues from the "Lord of the Flies/prison run by the prisoners dynamic" dysfunctional norm structure of schools and bullying. It was viewed as the worse option especially for corner cases before it got forced into primetime at scale. On a side note you clearly didn't mean it in the negative sense but the rhetoric of "arbitrary option for improvement technology/advance is privileging the elite" bugs me as very zero sum. If any ammount of additional resources can yield at least a smaller edge then by definition the elite can perform better. The only alternative to that situation category is "no additional human effort can help". The framing in effect spitefully disregards the masses of "non-elite" both within and without access to the option and implicitly dismisses anything which helps because another gets helped more.