Online learning has become popular in recent years because, at the same price, it tends to be either cheaper or better than a centre with premises.
The reason is straightforward
An online school has no rent to pay.
With no building to fund, that money can go into teachers, into materials, and more recently into online learning tools.
But the classroom was giving you something too
When you travel to a class, you are handed a room: desks, air conditioning, quiet, a space your brain recognises as study time. In exchange you pay for the travel and the time it costs.
Online you save that, but you have to provide the space yourself.
What I hear constantly
Students tell me: "I can't turn my mic on, my house is noisy, there are a lot of people here." Or: "I only unmute when I need to speak."
That will not do.
Once you have chosen to study online, you have to find somewhere quiet. It cannot be skipped or worked around. It is not that no such place exists; it is that you have to arrange one.
In short
Whether online study works comes down to how you do it. What the centre used to handle for you is now yours to handle. That is precisely what the lower price represents.