Perhaps, though schooling is often struggles to promote solutions that are not efficiency first. In fact as far as I've experienced colleges and universities often benchmark the courseload so most will resort to shortcuts that save time and reduce learning.

Of course there are always those who take the path of least resistance, but outside actual prodigies schooling is designed for priorization for those with higher aspirations too.

Not a valueless skill of course, but I've often wondered if the courses tight scheduling squeezes in manage to compensate for shoddier fundamentals of the trade and more knowing things to be tested.