My mom: "because you're always on that damn phone!"
I have coworkers that were in the last few years of high school when covid broke out. They spent all day playing video games or watching Netflix and when it came time to graduate, well.... there wasn't a ceremony or anything. They just got their diploma in the mail.
Not saying covid is the absolute reasoning for it, but it did play a huge part in our youth having a hard time reading and writing
I guess I'm going to self host. Better that than having to create yet another account on yet another instance just because it got defederated