Yea tbh its just the teachers. Its just feels stupid when they "teach the content" for like 8 weeks but then in the last week they're just like yolo lol this random study guide on some irrelevant text never helped u heres an essay. And the salt to the wounds is that the subject is supposedly "challenging assumptions" "critically interpreting" "going outside of the box" but do you ever see majority of people with brand new ideas? If you read most threads or even ask teachers, its literally just adopting exemplars that were really good and just shaping them to the question.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not hating reading here. I doubt I'll stop reading after English (But definitely not for quite a while after the HSC) but its just the experience that turns people away from it. Its kinda like the whole maths debacle?