I understand and not disagree completely, but from my childhood, finding a snippet of code and racionalizing about its function/applicability to my problem was

I understand and not disagree completely, but from my childhood, finding a snippet of code and racionalizing about its function/applicability to my problem was one way to learn coding. All ChatGPT does is generate snippets that actually touch the area of my interest, and I dont have to scourge half the internet for it (altho that brings its own sets of positive effects in itself). Maybe its possible your disdain is actually towards "get rich quick for no work" mentality, instead of people using ChatGPT to form code and ask opinions on it in general?