What you have in most education software is that they're catering to the decision-maker who makes the budget allocations and that decision-maker has a lot of check boxes. Does it do this? Check. Does it do that? Check. They could care less about the end user experience.
The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it if not economically friendly at least not economically disastrous for studios to take on deficits.
