Some good points. I always saw homework as practicing what was taught. The maths teaxher explains how to do fraction addition say and the hour of the class is taken up with explaining and some examples. Then homework is just using the fact that solving problems in silence seems like a waste of being in a classroom with a teacher
If it’s just busywork then sure, it has no point besides drilling in some sense of “you will have to organise your time and do this or else”
Children don’t go to school for eight hours to learn. They go to school for eight hours to learn and to have some place to be while parents work.
Both students and teachers have tasks that can happen in quiet together time and students can benefit by having both the structure and the presence of the knowledgeable teacher. Two things not all students can rely on parents to provide.
If it’s just busywork then sure, it has no point besides drilling in some sense of “you will have to organise your time and do this or else”