The problem was never the volume of homework, it is the targeting and specificity. Learning happens through repetitive deliberate practice, full stop. You can’t

The problem was never the volume of homework, it is the targeting and specificity. Learning happens through repetitive deliberate practice, full stop. You can’t learn through osmosis; effort is required. Industrialized mass education has always suffered from a unit economics problem: the labor required to assign individually-tailored problem sets and manually grade them in the volume needed for most students to actually learn the material is prohibitively expensive.