Do you think you learn as much from reading summaries of papers as reading the full thing? Do you think you learn as much from asking a friend to write a paper as when you write it yourself?
What your describing here
> reading the portions of those papers that you are interested in
Is a hybrid use of the technology which no one would argue against.
The question remains if students have the foresight to use the correct method and which results in the best learning outcomes.
For myself, I would have absolutely let LLMs summarise swaths of text and write my essays when I was at Uni. That's just me though. Maybe today's learners are better than I.