A course teaches you what a raag is. Riyaaz is what actually puts it in your voice or your hands. It happens alone, every day, long after the lesson ends.
Every Indian Music tradition draws the same distinction: the lesson is where you learn what to do, and riyaaz is where you actually learn to do it. A generic course platform optimizes for the first and mostly ignores the second: more videos, more modules, a progress bar that fills up the moment you finish watching.
That is exactly backwards for Indian Music. Watching a demonstration of Raag Yaman does not put Yaman in your voice. Only the slow, repetitive, sometimes boring work of practicing the same phrase until it stops sounding like an imitation and starts sounding like you does that.
This is why Swaranjani treats practice as a first-class part of the product, not an afterthought bolted onto video lessons: a digital tanpura, a taal metronome, and a practice log that only counts time you actually spent, because a streak you can fake is worse than no streak at all.
If you take one thing from this: don't measure your progress by how many lessons you have watched. Measure it by how many days you have actually sat down and practiced.