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Very apparently you're counting as a singular physical person. In a big organization there's always an overhead both in time, and money, and more importantly there are more problems to solve than there are resources. So one has to arrange priorities, and just keep low-prio things in check not letting to boil over the lid.


Preventing people from using their preferred tools — tools which are extremely widely used in the real world — does not seem like a useful application of time and effort.


This is for students, not professionals; youngster's ideas of "preferred tools" very easily take a backseat to university requirements.


Usefulness depends on conditions of which we don't know a lot here. Sure, there are situations when counteracting pressure is more expensive than expanding capacity. But frankly I doubt this particular case is one of those.




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