Nope. Personally I could not disagree more. I studied CS pre pandemic at a regular university. The whole curriculum was designed around lectures and in-person

Nope. Personally I could not disagree more. I studied CS pre pandemic at a regular university. The whole curriculum was designed around lectures and in-person classes. But I skipped most of them due to social anxiety and laziness. Because every class had a digital script and I could practice with old exams, I did fairly well. Even better than most of those guys that visited every lecture. I guess that part of the problem is that some students tend to think, that just visiting the lecture is enough. They forget to practice the stuff on their own. Which you do automatically if you work through the script all by yourself. After university I dropped right into my first job. Because of the pandemic it was 100% remote. Again, this worked perfectly. I could not have been any better. I even was able to take additional responsibility due to my performance "which exceeds expectations". So calling this nonsense is nonesense ;-)