"no one makes kids sign early"
Kind of? Coaches very often pressure kids to sign early, with the threat of pulling offers either implied or stated directly. So people with more power just leverage the hell out of them.
The idea with this was to let kids who were in a stable spot recruiting-wise shut things down, with perhaps the bonus that it would slow down some of the drive to fire everyone.
Instead, it's just encouraged earlier and more aggressive hirings and firings. And once those happen, more kids who were stable suddenly are not, and then they scramble to something more stable and things get weirder and more messy. I was here for the early signing period. At the moment, it's not really affected behaviors or situations positively, and thus, I wouldn't mind seeing a rollback.