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To work with the "robots can't eat your dinner for you" analogy, what you're doing here is you're saying you went to a bad restaurant once therefore people shouldn't bother cooking.
Look, I gave a single example out of brevity. I did ten semesters of college, every essay I've turned in was graded on formatting, punctuation, grammar, spelling and not factual accuracy, validity of research or strength of conclusions. Because doing that stuff is hard.
Multiple choice or short answer tests are easy to cram for and easy to grade. Basing curricula around them encourages cram-and-dump study methods that don't encourage actual long-term learning. You end up with students who can do high level calculus or discuss the lasting ramifications of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo for a week or two. If AI makes it impossible to pretend we're teaching students this way anymore, so much the better.