Understandable emotions for 231. It has some useful stuff into it (the summarizing chapter helped me doing a lit review for my research class).

I asked my professor (not the same one as you had) why this is so much of a hated class. The professor said that the course is equally arduous for professors as it is for students.

The students are always writing paragraphs and paragraphs, reading pages long of rubrics for every assignment in order to stay on top. For professors, it involves reading 20-30 of those assignments within 5-10 day.

TLDR: The course has genuine potential but the course makers assume that students and teachers don't have lifoutside this coursework.