In a way, yes. In my town there are less than 5 shops, all but one do the typical 6 nights of pool/class time and 2 days in OW. The one does no class time and about a day total in water.Yeah, an instructor would say that. You can't be for real.
Agengies certify many incompetend instructors who than sell crappy couses to trusting customers and it's all the divers fault who 'created' the situation? Really?
PADI/SSI/etc. could have higher standards and they could have a quality management system, they choose not to do it in order to sell more product!
Many customer trust their instructors/agencies because they don't know any better, that's why they taking couses... and many times they are being taken advantage off. Looks at all the crappy SM course being sold, it's all just the customers fault?
It's half the price of the others, perspective students usually know the differences and choose the quickie shop. I blame the shop for offering it, I blame the students for choosing it.