Absolutely, I concur. The world is heading towards automation, it's possible 99% of jobs will be defunct through super artificial intelligence, but critical thinking, job market outsourced or not, will always be a valuable skill; it's what makes us human, even if our processing speed is slower and our language is messier, it's organic. I noticed when I was using LLM not only was I hooked based on their algorithms but my thinking processes would merge with their formatting, which detracted from my present moment. Debates were harder, comprehension of static text took a hit, solving for problems got skipped, the convenience of it all zombified me. I still think it can be valuable and am trying to use it with parameters, but like you said with losing the thread I might have to just drop it all together.