You seem to think that before ChatGPT there were no students cheating?
There will always be people that try to outsmart everyone else and not do the work. The problem here is those people, nothing else.
There will always be people that try to outsmart everyone else and not do the work. The problem here is those people, nothing else.
That applies here, with these academic-cheating scenarios: It's not just some incrementally cheaper and more-convenient way to hire somebody to write your paper like you could for decades.