Yeah, I could see a position of, “How will people express themselves if they don’t practice writing essays?” but I could see in five years the primary two ways

Yeah, I could see a position of, “How will people express themselves if they don’t practice writing essays?” but I could see in five years the primary two ways of doing that becoming (1) Machine-assisted essay writing, and (2) People with ideas explaining them to an AI model through conversation, and then the model going out and explaining it en masse to others. Maybe even some of those others will challenge points or extend the ideas, and the tech can distill all this feedback and critique into a summary that they take back to the author.