Because there are no good LMS, period. The entire concept of a "Learning Management System" is stupid and conclusory, but makes for a good business model that you can sell to unsuspecting administrators.
You just cannot "all-in-one" a system of learning without real modularity, and/or non-exclusivity. -- but the LMS always HAS to do some of this in order to keep its percieved edge; this creates very bad incentives of lock-in, like Canvas' idiotic and horrible "Conversations," which is just email but worse.
Source: I work in one everyday, and something always suffers as the money-maker tries to keep their competitive edge. In my experience the best shot at this is probably Google Classrooms, precisely because they're NOT desperate in this business.
(This is very analogous to how Wordpress became the best CMS precisely because it wasn't trying to be one.)
You just cannot "all-in-one" a system of learning without real modularity, and/or non-exclusivity. -- but the LMS always HAS to do some of this in order to keep its percieved edge; this creates very bad incentives of lock-in, like Canvas' idiotic and horrible "Conversations," which is just email but worse.
Source: I work in one everyday, and something always suffers as the money-maker tries to keep their competitive edge. In my experience the best shot at this is probably Google Classrooms, precisely because they're NOT desperate in this business.
(This is very analogous to how Wordpress became the best CMS precisely because it wasn't trying to be one.)