There's no doubt that you are far more knowledgeable ASW (as is NDY) so I 'am' listening, the thing that I find hardest to uinderstand is where the time comes from to try and set-up a beginner to shoot with a clicker, as in the early stages some will not draw to their face and others draw behind their ears no matter what you try and do.
Maybe that's what the problem is in my case, I hammer in range safey and show them basic form with minimum of equipment (as it's fairest timewise to the others). To introduce a clicker I think would really have to be in a one2one situation
It may be that the way forward is to try and produce 'archers' from a beginners course rather than 'safe raw material' that can 'group' at 18M, of which a small percentage may become an archer later
Maybe we need a 'new' course called 'introduction to archery'
I've found this thread interesting and thanks to NDY for starting it