> But what's worse (and what makes me disagree with your comment) is that even after a year of being online it still wasn't clear how to make it not suck!

Were these Zoom classes? I can't think of a single synchronous (like Zoom) class that didn't suck.

What I liked as a student was prerecorded lectures that could be replayed at high speed (or even skipped) on my own schedule. Personally I much prefer these over live lectures.