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I haven't been a teacher, but I have been a TA (while a grad student with a full course load) with a substantial weekly grading burden (e.g. 30 students' problem sets a week, with 10-15 problems each, for a class introducing concepts like formal proofs and basic number theory).

So I appreciate your point.

But I also remember being a student forced to churn out mindless formulaic essays with length and structure requirements. I hated it. I never liked writing until I finally had one good English teacher in high school who assigned and graded in the way you say is infeasible.

If a teacher doesn't have the bandwidth/capacity/skill/etc. to teach English well, maybe they should find something else to do instead of torturing students with mind-numbing assignments.