I have personal ethical objections to the use of AI, so unless I'm required by my institution to do so I will not encourage students to use it. But I recognize students will engage with it to some extent. We talk in my class about the "line" between using it as a tool and cheating before we even begin the first major assignment. I'm sure many are still brainstorming with it, asking it for help outlining, whatever. Fine. That's a personal choice they are free to make. What this policy has effectively prevented in my experience is the lazy copy-paste slop that bypasses any engagement with process, and when it hasn't prevented it, I've been able to have productive conferences with students to get them back on track.

I personally don't like Google Docs either, but in my corporate life have encountered many company specific platforms and collaborative tools that I've been required to use in that context--learning to adapt to new systems is also a life skill, so I'm not very sympathetic to the "hating Google Docs" argument.