The existence of highly-paid tenure track faculty does not change the fact that too many classrooms are led by adjuncts who could make more at McDonald's than they do teaching.
Your argument is akin to saying that poverty isn't an issue in the U.S. because Bill Gates.
Can't speak for your alma mater (or am I??), but during my time at UF, adjuncts in engineering simply weren't a thing; never took a course taught by one for anything lower division either...YMMV, I suppose.
Somewhere in between, full-time lecturers (called "instructional professors" these days?) were and still are exceedingly rare (albeit probably safe to assert all ECE alumni of roughly the past 2 decades were Schwartz'd and/or Gugel'd in some capacity).
Must've been a long time ago because now there's an army of non-tenure faculty teaching classes for every engineering department and in CISE. Whether they get paid less than they would at McDonald's is another matter but without a doubt they are a cost cutting measure (along with online classes and various other edtech BS like proctoring services).
The fancy/official term for this is usually Lecturer. It’s a permanent position that’s usually not equal to professor in power and prestige, but it’s permanent, the pay can be good and you don’t have any expectation of research.
Graduate students and adjunct professors have largely taken over this responsibility because they are much cheaper.
> The fancy/official term for this is usually Lecturer.
Not sure about that[1], but acknowledged.
Graduate TAs were par for any course with a lab component or recitation, even courses that were taught by a lecturer; never felt like I was somehow being shorted opportunity in those though. It's the infamous adjunct part that my experience draws a blank on.
Your argument is akin to saying that poverty isn't an issue in the U.S. because Bill Gates.