Yes, but, even then I feel the point was more "I need to pass to get a job, this currently feels beyond my skills/energy/time, and morals are secondary".

The important shift here is that there's increasingly a more "what pointless checkbox exercises these are" vibe to it, as if cognitive offloading of learning / skill acquisition is now secondary due to LLMs, or even actively a productivity-culture-driven shameful waste of time, which I think is seriously misguided.

It feels as if the morality argument has turned on its head; the students seem to almost feel expected to cheat and work around the "luddites" as the perceived moral thing to do. By the time they realise the value of the skills they should have acquired it will be too late.