What exactly is wrong with Rosetta's method for reaching just A1 or A2? (not including the price)

Assuming your goal is not to become medium or advanced, but just to get to a2 or at least a1 in order to kickstart your learning, to be more comfortable with using books later on (which should be more or less achievable with using mainly apps like Duolingo, Busuu,..), what exactly would make Rosetta less efficient in comparison to those other apps?

The price is high, sure, the main argument, about 180 dollars once for lifetime of all languages, but Glossika's (not the same type, but still a language app) is insanely higher, 300 for just one year, so 1200 dollars assuming you're going to use it for 4 years, money for which you could buy a older used BMW 3 or something, yet it doesn't get criticized for the price nearly as much.

If we don't include the price argument, I saw several threads about what people think about Rosetta and the only real argument (other than the basic "it's not effective") I saw was that it doesn't teach you in your language, but with pictures, which is a fair point, but I tried one lesson (it's free to try, some people have it free in universities,etc ^{plus it's free in some certain ways of using internet which you shouldn't do}) and honestly, I understood everything, you get a picture of a boy or a girl shown multiple times and you click on which one is it, you get pics of people swimming, eating, a single person or multiple people,etc. and while you don't get the translation, it's completely understandable.

This could of course become a problem when learning more complex topics and some abstract concepts or technical things that can't be explained with pictures, but assuming you just want to get a kickstart and some basic introduction to basic words, letters and pronounciation and then switch to a book, would it for such case really be that ineffective? After all, a single lesson is about 20, 30 minutes and there's loads and loads of lessons. I don't understand why it gets so much negativity, is it instead because people judge it on whether it can get you to a medium or upper level, which it obviously can't and then based of that say that it is ineffective?

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