And I hear the smart girls are getting Master’s and PhD’s instead of becoming Chumash teachers. Equally untrue. I love Chumash and it is not a contradiction to secular knowledge and being practical.
There is nothing wrong with a man who works hard making set times for learning and making realistic plans for a parnasa because he wants to be responsible and support a family in a Torah lifestyle. In my opinion that’s great. If he is leaving only for kavod then he probably wasn’t learning lishma in the first place.