[dillutedfixer]

"Sadly it won't even be the next generation as they're all rusted into the ecosystem with Chromebooks provided by their school districts. "

This is so true that it hurts. I went back to college later in my life starting in 2018. It's astonishing to me how ingrained Google services are to the kids I'm in school with. Even though we have Office 365 and a full suite of apps available to us for free, when we do group work the de-facto decision that students come to is to create Google drive shares, or shared Google docs that are tied to personal accounts. It gets so stupidly messy and the apps just seem so inferior. Everyone uses the same Slides template so everything looks the same. Ugh.

[notagoodidea]

Sometimes it is also due to the university changing their systems too often. When I was at uni, we had to switch from self-hosted + roundcube webmail to full Google suite to full Microsoft 365 : for mail and tooling in less then 9y. With transition period where everything was half-broken.