Thanks for speaking the truth here and now.
Living hell. With death looming over it's hard to care about the artificial and contrived world of art MFA.
When I researched MFA programs in the US, I looked at the faculty and student work at many top schools and came to the conclusion that grad school life would be essentially having to critique mediocre artists' work and having mediocre artists' critique my work, which isn't exactly productive to my own practice. I still applied because I thought having an MFA degree and connections would make my professional life easier. That's out of the picture now, and I believe more than ever in just working on my own.
Take care