a first-year who has never been to college just told me, a 2nd year at NUJS, to prep for clat and outlined the so-called pros of NLU's which I have actually experienced for 2 years now online and offline

quality online resources are BASIC AF
all competitions are capped and there usually aren't enough quality competitions to go around
internals to get to these competitions are arbitrary in the best of circumstances and are heavily rooted in privilege

you will be surrounded by snakes, develop trust issues and mental health problems, everything that will be done by you will be measured by others for 'cv value', your personal life & accomplishments will be evaluated by snakes who will try to stab you in the back