That's not a design choice made by a designer. That's a project lead or marketing deciding on how to implement more enshitification into a product.
For presentations she can check out Penpot. It's web based, mainly for UI design, but super easy to use. Also FOSS.
Having lived in quite a few countries now, it's all about who you know. It's extremely hard to get a job when you don't have a network.
Watch this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pez_Outlaw I came into it blind and absolutely loved it. It tells a cool story about the origin of pez among else.
Penpot is quite easy to use and show a presentation in. Use unsplash or pexels for images and the prototype view for presenting. If you're not looking for FOSS there's a lot of AI presentation tools out there.
It's not really a big problem, there's a very small minority of rich people. We can sort out the problem in less than a week.
Set a timer for 30 minutes and study. Give yourself a 5 minute break / treat. But try not to overload yourself with more info from the Internet.
That's not a design choice made by a designer. That's a project lead or marketing deciding on how to implement more enshitification into a product.