True, but one point in its favor is that you could use it with real people, which is always something of an incentive. Studying, say, German or Italian in the US pretty much means that you'll have to get on a plane if you want to practice it in anything but an 'artificial' environment.

That said, Italian is pretty much one of the more useless languages in the world for anything outside of Italy, but I'm still quite happy with my choice:-)