Isn’t this progress? The stress components, obviously not. But over time our teaching methods and tools progress, at least in respect of specific concepts.
The progress now means that this is now a default expectation at the high school level, which means more work for high-schoolers to just stay afloat.
I’m arguing this isn’t a given. It often is. But consider the pedagogical progress in just educational YouTube videos. Difficult concepts that took hours to understand can now be grasped in under an hour. (You still have to work at it.)
It's bad if the avg college admission officer expects every high-schooler to have an open source project.