Comment by necovek

"Forcing" is a bit strong IMHO — I believe we've instead lost track of what is "passable", and everyone in higher education should be able to reach that and score a passing grade (D? C?).

Maybe professors are too stringent with their evaluation, or maybe they are not good at teaching people what a passable writing style is, or maybe students simply don't want to accept that if they don't excel at writing, a D or a C is perfectly fine. Perhaps teachers that look for good writing should have separate tests which evaluate students in both scenarios: with and without LLM help.

The same holds true for math: not everybody needs to know how to deduce a proof for every theorem, but in technical sciences, showing that ability and capability will demonstrate how much they are able to think and operate with precision on abstract concepts, very much like in programming. Even if coursework is a bit repetitive, practice does turn shallow knowledge into operational knowledge.