But they are trying to replace the system with something more effective. They just don't know what that would be.

Gotcha, it remains a subconscious work-in-progress.

in that case, their elders are due for an even more lenient pass as far as being end-products of a flawed system, perhaps nostalgic about that system and thus less able to discern those flaws in retrospect, and in scant few instances early adopters of jack-else that requires a significant investment in effort and attention?