Oh, the way chatGPT took in this assignment is super strange. One, because almost all tutorials start out with "delete the default sphere", which is a multi yea

Oh, the way chatGPT took in this assignment is super strange. One, because almost all tutorials start out with "delete the default sphere", which is a multi year old meme at this point. Two, because what you mentioned; there are a couple of other ways (like your primitive, but also NURBS lathe of a half circle, even the box with a lot of smoothing steps, subdivided icosahedron with smoothed faces)