I'm hesitant to ask, because I've had to deal with professors with the same sentiment on this topic, but given the sometimes insultingly mundane and easy first

I'm hesitant to ask, because I've had to deal with professors with the same sentiment on this topic, but given the sometimes insultingly mundane and easy first semester assignments, and the fact that _alot_ of lecturers reuse the same assignments over a decade, isn't there a point where you have seen pretty much every iteration of how an assignment can be reasonably solved? I've seen first and second semester students being accused of copying code from the internet, because they were using features of the language that hadn't been taught in class yet.