This. You can also learn everything taught there and better by just buying and reading the books.
Doesn't that happen in an informal way on a lot of subreddits and even here?
This doesn't come close to describing every single professor, but I imagine (albeit without any sources to back this up right now) that the ratio of such unicorn professors is higher at Tier 1 univerities vs. non-Tier 1.
Perhaps with a larger supply of determined students willing to tackle this on their own, this is the year where a larger number of focused case-study groups could be formed and sustained online.
In theory these communities can exist online. In reality, the vast majority of online communities are not open to being a classroom setting.
> Yah think yah so smaht? How do you like them apples?