Aside: “Problematic” is such a terrible word, uniformly intended to cast aspersions.
It’s reality: everything has positive and negative qualities in various proportions. Instead of implying that something is “bad” by virtue of being “problematic”, why not simply state what the specific problem is? Because then you can’t shit talk the entire affair, I suspect.
Perhaps it was initially intended to be useful in this way, but it has been co-opted to non-specifically disparage.
I think the case re: lesson / learning is less clear, because in a “learning” there’s no teacher, you’ve all learned something, whereas lesson implies teacher and taught.
It’s reality: everything has positive and negative qualities in various proportions. Instead of implying that something is “bad” by virtue of being “problematic”, why not simply state what the specific problem is? Because then you can’t shit talk the entire affair, I suspect.
Perhaps it was initially intended to be useful in this way, but it has been co-opted to non-specifically disparage.