Learn to write. Don't use Grammerly. That's the article. Instead, we keep trying to find little tricks to keep the utility without surrendering privacy.
High school and college essays are already full of enough mindless fluff and tropes. Why put everything you write into something that then makes you sound like a bot? Your essays will all end up with YouTube Face.
I mean I guess you can learn an instrument by reading sheet music and sheer force of will but I think most people prefer lessons.
I disagree. Grammarly has bombarded the internet and YouTube with so many ads, there are ads that make fun of Grammarly ads.
Nevertheless, people don't use it because it offers something that others don't. They use it because they don't know any better.
Even in this discussion, most suggestions for "better" is completely useless advice of "learn to write".
But the cost is it's not actually natural, it's what the AI says is natural.
*Grammarly.
I've never been to school, and I probably wouldn't use it for anything like an essay in real life, but it seems good when brevity is the main critical factor and sounding like a bot is expected.
I rarely ever see writing outside of actual books, and pre-2008ish news articles that specifically impresses me though, so maybe it's not the best for anything that matters, bot style writing does get pretty painful to read for hours.