Oh how I despise these suggestions. You sometimes look for a way to express something and you are on the verge of giving the world something truly original, but as soon as your brain sees the suggestion it goes "oh yeah that fits"
A certain amount of friction is necessary, at least if the goal is to help the person learn or make something original.
As an adult, I do too. As a middle schooler, we absolutely used word processors’ thesaurus features to add big words to our essays because the teachers liked them.
Anyway before that she HATED the thesaurus. And she could tell when students were using it to make their writing more fancy pants.
I had two teachers who called us out on this, and actually coached us on our writing, and I remember them fondly. (They were also fans of in-class essaying.)
The others wanted to count big words.