What if most course review pain points come from the same root issue?

I’ve been noticing something during course reviews that I can’t unsee anymore.

A lot of the most common pain points in L&D tend to show up together:

• courses that feel unclear even when the content is accurate,
• long review cycles with lots of subjective feedback,
• inconsistent standards across modules or teams,
• stakeholder disagreement about “what good looks like,”
• cognitive overload on otherwise solid screens,
• accessibility gaps caught late,
• endless rewrites that don’t really improve the experience,
• and very little shared way to measure quality.

Individually, these look like separate problems.

But together, they start to feel like a standards and clarity gap, not a content gap.

Lately, I’ve been exploring whether having a shared review lens — one that looks at clarity, consistency, accessibility, and experience as a whole — could reduce a lot of this friction earlier in the process.

I’m curious:

• Do these issues tend to cluster for you too?
• Where do reviews usually break down?
• What’s helped you create more alignment, if anything?

I’m interested in patterns more than tools.