Our predecessors solved educational problems of a vast scale. Comenius invented textbooks because learning was so rare that even teachers had precious little of it. The masses were illiterate and ignorant. The problems we face today are not worse than the problems they faced. The people who solved those earlier problems didn't do so by thinking in time frames appropriate to three-year grants.
Football is a finite game.
Gardening is an infinite game. A political campaign is a finite game. A family is an infinite game. A business deal is a finite game. A religion is an infinite game.