I appreciate the insight. This is a very difficult issue that we’ve been trying to grapple with for years.
Essentially we need to get the deck to a point where we can share it and better collaborate as a community. Unfortunately many of the images that were originally used for the deck are from textbooks or resources that we don’t have the license too. Many of those are also getting outdated. We’re trying to replace things as best we can in the short term and then we can potentially hire designers to actually create new images for us where needed (or solicit help from the community).
I understand your specific concern here and I talked with the team and they are going to try moving images that were in the text and extra to the top of the “additional resources” field from now on so that they remain there for people who already had the image in their collection. We’ll try and go back and do that for previous changes as well. Your point about spaced repetition is valid, but we’re rapidly trying to alter these now so that things are relatively stable for the incoming class that will start using this in a couple months. Hopefully moving them to the additional resources field will be a reasonable compromise for you.
If you have other ideas or suggestions, we would greatly appreciate it! As I said, this is a difficult issue I’ve had to deal with for years now and I’m trying to work as best as I can with the community to come up with a reasonable solution so that things will be much smoother moving forward.