Becoming a lawyer is also way harder than it needs to be. Anybody should be able to sit for the bar. In most states, you must have completed an education in law, and in the few that let you sit for the bar without a JD, you need to fulfill some arcane requirements like 20hr/week for a year of judge shadowing just to sit for it.

I would readily consider self-studying for the bar considering I'm interested in the material and it would be extremely useful, but I have a full-time job and don't want to pay money to an online school just to be able to take a test. It doesn't help that there are almost no good free online materials for learning law, although you can of course just look at / ask about good college curriculums (curricula?) and acquire the materials yourself