> the end result of your advice to “Lakewood” would be a tremendous loss of Torah.
I am not giving advice to “Lakewood”. I can’t even as it is a makom where one of my Rebbes live and I am too scared of him. Even more, I am not questioning, and very much in support, of all post-WW2 yeshiva activities that saved tremendous number of people from assimilation and other yeridot. I am thinking about current state of affairs. If some of my thinking has validity that would lead to the next question – how do we correct the ship without losing the good that is there.
And this is not a new question. Even way back when I was looking for a shidduch, a Lakewood shadchanit was describing to me about girls figuring out that they can become software developers by going to small local colleges, enabling them to support their husbands learning. I don’t think that was a marketing guzma because I was not looking for that.