Heh. A seemingly-timely Focused episode just dropped:
(Not sure yet if David and Mike talk about this exact use-case)
I was thinking an Obsi plugin or two might work here. I’ll have to poke around! Kanban’s gotten a lot of great updates lately.
Cognitive load, I suppose. I have found it helpful when teaching multiple courses in a semester to visualize the entire term, for instance. If I were to try to scroll the term I’d have forgotten the first few weeks by the time I’m looking at the final exams. 
Yes! But… which alternative app? Haha. I am playing with Busycal this morning. It might work — it certainly has a few ways of making the month view more “wall-calendar-like” than Fantastical does.