A perfect analogy.
My dd17 just did this. Unschooled until age 14, she went into school of her own accord. (I think I talked with you about this some time ago when you were checking out democratic schools in your area for you son?). She graduated and moved onto the next stage where you narrow your options further to pursue a specific career and all motivation ground to a halt. She’d rather have mucked out the chicken shed than open her text books.
She just hardforked over Xmas, deciding not to continue with her a levels but to repeat the year from September with music and foreign languages (her passions). Her school have helped her hardfork too! They put her on ‘extended work experience’ so she can educate herself out side of school until September. (She could have deregistered to home educate too).

People are waking up to hardforking earlier rather than later ... and it’s never too late to hardfork, right?