> Don't kid yourself. If you use this junk, it's making you dumber and damaging your critical thinking skills, full-stop. This is delegation of core competency.

This is a good way to frame the problem. Consider the offshoring (delegation) of American manufacturing to China, followed by the realization decades later that the US has forgotten how to actually make things and the subsequent frenzied attempt to remember.

I expect the timelines and second-order (third-order...) effects to play out on a similar decadal scale - long after everybody has realized their profits and the western brain has atrophied into slop.