You're still taking in input and experiencing the world. I was really young for the grade I was in which made things harder than necessary. It would have been

You're still taking in input and experiencing the world. I was really young for the grade I was in which made things harder than necessary. It would have been easier to be a year older. You'd still get the socialization anyway, you'd just have one year with a little less (and I'm not really convinced that remote socialization via remote learning is particularly helpful, whatever alternative socialization outside of remote learning is probably just as good or better).