Reply To: Useless tutorial for 2.8+

[Michael Smith]

It is so sad to see some good artists who disappeared from this 3d cooking site because the (tools) Pots and Kettle for cooking 3d cookies have become old and dented.  It seems the new instructors can’t figure out how to do the old cooking techniques with the new cooking tools.

It is nice to read your explanations, but there is still a glaring flaw in the reasoning. 

If it is the concepts and workflows that transcend the blender versions, why retire the techniques and tutorials? Instead why not just retire the authors not complying with your company standards to recycle and update the workflows and find another artist to retain the concepts and workflows that transcended the versions. Or better yet, you update the technique to its latest incarnation ? You are right, its not the buttons clicked or the self praise instructors do that we subscribers want from you, we only care about the techniques & concepts you are trying to sell to us. So blindly retiring courses without taking the initiative to update the technique to the latest blender tools only makes the campus..or Kingdom a breeding ground for one trick ponies.

Here is another perspective at the issue to think through, but unfortunately it will make sense only if you have attended any professional schools or post graduate training. People don’t choose to go to campuses like MIT or Harvard because they do `awesome new trick courses` every year. Instead students swarm in from all over the world to join those campuses only to learn the techniques and concepts conceived by great scientists, to be guided by current experts, hoping to learn the G-old techniques with the current tools. 

Also, making excuses like “Blender is changing so fast” or “its not just us but every Blender instructor faces the same issues” are good examples for the old English Proverb – “A bad workman always blames his tools”