it's particularly bad for students who should be trying to learn. at the same time in my own life, there are tasks that I don't want to do, and certainly don't

it's particularly bad for students who should be trying to learn. at the same time in my own life, there are tasks that I don't want to do, and certainly don't want to learn anything about, yet have to do. For example, figuring out a weird edge case combination of flags for a badly designed LaTeX library that I will only ever have to use once. I could try to read the documentation and understand it, but this would take a long time. And, even if it would take no time at all, I literally would prefer not to have this knowledge wasting neurons in my brain.