This could apply outside philosophy. I sat thru some chemistry classes that bordered on performance art working thru endless examples of problems in class. I think I pretty much learned quantitative chemical analysis by osmosis just watching the prof work problems. I still remember endless buffer solutions puzzles over 20 years later. Also ochem lab was self explanatory, its a practical lab class nothing more, from memory there was no lecture component beyond "this is the fire extinguisher, here is the safety shower, here is the eye wash station" etc. This could probably be extended to CS/IT classes, somehow.
Students are attending to learn and will give negative reviews when they are not learning as much as they expected they would learn.
Depends very much on the course. A lot courses are attended by a lot of students who just need the course to fulfill some requirement and want nothing more than to get a pass with as little work as possible.
I admire your optimism but I just don't think that's true in even half the cases.