Interesting comments.My friend recently went through the e learning and after completing the course she really did not know much about diving. I guess the new course does not teach dive charts. She relies on the dive master on the boat trip to tell the group when to do the decompression stops.
When e-Learning first came out, the shop where I was working refused to have anything to do with it for a long time. They eventually gave in at the management level and allowed a pilot program for a few divers. The instructors were enthusiastic about the results, so they opened it up as an option for everyone. I think I was on maybe my 12th OW student before I had one of them miss a question on the exam. The results were so universal that the shop totally reversed its original refusal to use it and made it the only way they did it.
You say that this person does not know much about diving and has to rely on a divemaster to tell the group when to do decompression stops. I find that interesting as well, since that level of diving does not do decompression stops.