Saving this phrasing before I forget it:
Some people are in university for accreditation, some for education. The university tries to provide both, and as a result is suboptimal at both. They are not complementary goals (and may even be contradictory in some cases). And, as Unix Philosophy, Google, and life teaches us: doing too much means doing nothing well.
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