Yes, but other than being conditioned to believe the experience of reading is superior, why are we striving for that experience?
Doing the square root of 147 by hand is a more educational experience than using a calculator, but I can understand the concept of a square root without having to factorize 147 (the same cannot be said of my pre-calculator ancestors).
It also saves me from having to remember the decimal representation of sqrt3.
With math, when you are first learning the very basics it helps to do a few problems by hand to get a feel of things. Sure if you have a degree in STEM have have deal with advance math you can probably get away with just reading the theory only.
We just built a very strong culture encouraging it because for a long time it was the most efficient way to do both things.
Now it’s not, but the tradition of it being important is hard to shake.
The closest analogue in my mind is how the classics in their original Greek were considered the only true way to learn for a very long time (even once most of the important knowledge had been translated to English very well).
Most of the things a kid does on a computer in 2023 are actively geared toward not using your brain in any way.
This is more analogous to a parent in 1985 taking away both the phone and the TV from their kid.
Eye of the beholder, I guess. I certainly see people struggle to use LLM's so I disagree with the implication that it's a zero-skill activity.
AI tools exist, we should be encouraging our kids to learn how to exist in a world with them, not some nostalgic extinct world without.