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You'd still need checkout dives, medical forms, etc. E-learning just gets rid of the part that dive shops "lose" money on (or break even depending on who you talk to).
There is really no reason PADI actually needs the medical forms. It could easily be handled with online questions ("Do you have asthma, etc.").
Checkout dives can be handled at the resort destination, and could easily be reduced to a single dive with a DM.
The point I'm making is that once the world's largest agency starts sliding down the "diving as a tourist activity" path, there's nothing stopping them from continuing as far as they wish. (The RSTC is irrelevant when you're the 800Lb Gorilla).
Terry