Presumably you knew how to write before ChatGPT was a thing, though?
> we should ignore
Never implied anything of the sort. But it can be a bit like kids not learning basic math and skipping straight to using calculators for everything just 10x worse.
> IMHO that's not remotely the same thing as figuring out the steps on your own.
This is true with pretty much anything, but it doesn't mean we should ignore tools that can do those steps for you.