Universities really aren't set up for meritocracy, and it's mostly because of funding. No uni is going to fail you when you pay £100k+, whether borrowed or not. Essentially, you are going to stay there, wasting your youth and potential until you either pass or cannot afford it anymore.
However, if the universities are funded by the government, whether fully or partially, then the state of education is directly linked to the political stability and ideology of the party in power. A dictator can just rise to power and have schools teach students that the leader has magical/supernatural abilities and powers to fix the economy and shortages. This is pretty much what happened in Romania after the communist takeover.
Either way, in practice, universities are never truly about fulfilling the potential of great minds, but exploiting the pockets of the highest bidder and becoming its ideological slave.
Unless you go to a 'prestigious' university (aka your employer knows about it / went there) you're wasting your money and time.
The most unfun thing in the world is full-combo+perfect the entire song, only to get a D rating cause you ain't got the SS level characters in your team. More unfun and less rewarding than watching your nails grow
Then Nintendo showed up and talked about all these projects they were working on, all these titles yet to release, and their hopes and aspirations for the future. If I could trade in my PS4 and games for a Nintendo Switch I wouldn't even think twice.
Laser grids, magnetic unga-bunga, etc.
You're telling me there is absolutely no other SAS or Navy Seals operative that can make the cut for team rainbow? Ok. But this one chick with a prostetic arm that can punch glory-holes in regips walls, and an avid historian with a rope & hook are somehow indispensable assets?
piss off
Body temperature takes a.k.a. common sense