You're putting up a strawman. Information for the sake of information is not knowledge, nor learning. One can spend their whole life watching reality TV and nam

You're putting up a strawman. Information for the sake of information is not knowledge, nor learning. One can spend their whole life watching reality TV and name every single celebrities in existence - hardly anyone would call that act "learning" or "acquiring knowledge". Of course if one could still be learning in a suboptimal way: acquiring useless information, or acquiring information without understanding of the subject matter, but that's an orthogonal issue altogether: it's suboptimal regardless of your effort/time/how much knowledge you had. At the very least, I found it hard to believe that in this time and age, one can acquire enough knowledge of any subject (breath or depth) that any more effort would be suboptimal. The other choice of thinking "I know enough and don't need to care anymore" is potentially far far more dangerous.