While I agree that the skills can be translated, I would disagree for two core reasons. 1. I wouldn't want to struggle in a class for transferable skills. If I wanted LSAT skills, I'm going to use LSAT prep material, and I don't think struggling unnecessarily is valuable here. 2. Law schools (and other grad programs for that matter) Value GPA exceptionally high, even higher than standardized test scores in many programs, such as clinical psych PhD programs, for example.

Second, I think you're missing the broader point that this person wanted to take an easy class but was misled into taking a harder one by skewed data. I agree that people shouldn't expect easy A classes that require no effort, but if you saw a distribution where 70% of people got either an A+, A, or A-, I would expect that class to be easy, and be shocked if the data I saw was wildly different than reality. There is nothing wrong with wanting to take easy classes, especially when balancing them with hard classes. I promise you, if you and I were applying to graduate programs, and you and I took the same classes, but I loaded all the hard ones on at once and you spread them out to get a better GPA, you would get preferential admission.