> “If you go to a job in real life, you can’t pick and choose what tasks you want to do and only do the quote big ones,”

Sometimes I think teachers are out of touch with the rest of the world.

You most certainly can pick and choose only to do the big jobs. Companies certainly want you to focus on the big jobs over the smaller ones.

Who hasn't heard of projects being completed past the initial deadline? I think it'd be a bit better to have students root-cause why they couldn't complete the deadline on time but the real world misses deadlines all the time.