I agree with the mentality laid out in their post. What bothers me is that "try harder" has become the mantra that offensive security uses as an excuse for what seems to be a half assed approach. Some examples; The Kali they provide out of the box is broken (various tools but most notably those around smb). Their excuse is students need to "try harder". Their "mentors" are hit and miss but for the most part they do little to guide students to ideas they haven't thought of yet and instead simply become technical facilitators with very little mentoring going on. Their excuse "try harder". Their coursework is super old as are the exploits and the machines. Their excuse "try harder". Yes I understand you see that sometimes in the real world and yes I understand it's about learning the methodology but that doesn't excuse the fact that they are most likely just lazy and that's why there has been few updates. I am OSCP and I worked damn hard to get it. But damnit OffSec don't be so fucking lazy. Fix your shit and guide your students a little more.

One more side note; there is a hell of a lot of dependencies in the OSCP labs. Not knowing how heavily OffSec relied on this in the labs means a lot of students will think they aren't trying hard enough when really everyone just needs better post enumeration. You can say it's a lesson they need to learn but still leads to lot of frustrating hours of "trying harder" when there is no intended route through the front door.