Most of it is mediocre creativity and a low willingness to adapt their prompting patterns for an optimal ratio of effort to output quality. Most people who don't understand yet expect LLMs to read their minds when they would better of orienting themselves as student who have zero experiencing developing the arsenal strategies that elicit productivity gains.
They haven't developed any intuition into which kinds of questions are worth prompting, which kinds of context are effective, or even which kinds of limitations apply to which models.