I largely agree, except: When I look back on my own college experience, the actual academic content might only account for, like, a quarter of the value I got o

I largely agree, except: When I look back on my own college experience, the actual academic content might only account for, like, a quarter of the value I got out of it. And data seems to back this out - entirely online degrees don't nearly drive as much success as the in-person experience. So universities are certainly not going to admit that the content and learning portion of their experience are not important. But moreover I suspect what Harvard and others don't want to admit is that they don't fully understand what makes alumni successful, and are terrified of changing the recipe too much.