It’s a good student writing the piece, which is somehow fundamentally pretentious

ok, essentialism much?

You seem to be projecting some issues onto this student from your own childhood experience. Maybe look into that

Selfishness isn’t the solution try again

Recognizing that I can't control other people isn't selfishness

I don’t think the time in school will miraculously become more efficient bc of no homework.

Your second point… so what

I mean they can try. They’re not gonna be very good at it

No. No one does that

How on earth would you know? Foh

The way to do this is to chew people out when they let their own sources get in the way of doing a good job

Bad ones

Bad by modern standards, there was a point in time where even just compositing two images on top of each other with an alpha cutout was considered a complex task.