Seeing students everyday v. 1-2 times per week?

Hello all just wanted to ask for some perspective.

I've been teaching for 10 years now, and I spent the first 6 years of my career at a school where I saw students every day for about 55 minutes. For the last 4 years, I've been working into school, where I see the students for 85 minutes per class but I only see them twice a week (for some upper grade levels it is only once a week).

Reflecting upon it now, I must say, I really don't like this 85 minutes, but twice a week set up. I understand it has advantages in the sense that you can do longer activities with the students, but especially for the middle school students (to clarify, these are both Middle and Highschool combined institutions) The break between classes sometimes as much as 3 to 4 days long disrupts the learning in my eyes. Even when I ask them to write down things in their planners, even when I email them and their parents about homework or long-term ongoing projects, the homework doesn't get done (no matter how little is assigned), worksheets get lost, students forget to bring books and supplies. Basically, I have to keep all of their work in class, if it goes over two classes or the next class, half, the students will show up with whatever work we've done missing. It could just be my perspective, but it seems like the material just doesn't stick as well with the students.

I still, occasionally get these kinds of problems with the high school level students, but it's much less, and I just get the impression that they can handle that kind of break between classes, better than middle school students can.

However, am I wrong? Am I looking at this from an overly negative perspective? Would love to hear some thoughts from other educators who may have been in a similar situation.

Thank you