much of it is just "stuff" to be learned to pass the exam
Sure - why TF should anyone have to learn what colour paper some 1936 treaty was printed on?
And we can manage without the trick questions (nobody can
fly to one degree accuracy, so why insist on measuring lines on the map to one degree accuracy?), and we can manage without the technical questions that are so dumbed down that if you actually understand the subject matter you haven't a clue which answer to pick as they're all wrong.
I just think that each time this debate comes up
someone should put in a gentle reminder that there is
some point to learning
some of this stuff properly.
Even in Air Law: there's one rule, "if someone's coming at you head on do you turn right or left," that could one day be quite useful. Having memorised that on paper 3 the answer to question 17 is C, and having forgotten it again the day after the exam, isn't of quite the same value.