It can be useful just for experimentation, too. You don't have to commit all the code it writes.
Most of the time it just feels like an autocomplete that is actually useful, it's scary good at writing the rest of the line exactly the way I was going to.
Anyway, your argument seems much more reasonable than the original post - they're just faffing about copyright which is completely pointless since Microsoft already declared they'll take care of any copyright lawsuits related to Copilot.