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There are huge quality differences in both whiteboards and blackboards.

It's not a lack of familiarity with melamine boards, it's acute familiarity with incompetent penny-pinching marker supplies. Most public whiteboard lectures involve the search for markers that aren't dry; the organizer might as well be standing there in their whitey-tighties.

Of course, Universities rarely provide Hagoromo chalk, and those of us reading this would also be bringing our own markers to any whiteboard lecture. So if faced with whiteboard conversion, we should speak up for melamine.

Still, I imagine that in five hundred years there will still be Steinway grand pianos, and some people will still prefer sex in person, and some people will prefer using actual blackboards. A whiteboard reminds me of that humiliating scene in "La La Land" where Ryan Gosling plays a solo one-handed on a toy electric piano.