It seems plenty obvious, but there's also scientific backing slowly catching up: https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt...
Google search has been getting progressively worse for technical topics for at least the past decade. Now suddenly they started providing a free tutor capable of custom tailoring graduate level explanations of technical topics for me on demand. The difference is night and day.
And certainly individuals can make their own decision to engage with an LLM in positive, self-thought-provoking ways, but it's still useful to understand how people generally do use them in the real world.