I agree completely. It’s amazing how much it can reduce the friction of getting close to the right answer. And even when it gets a detail wrong it can often help you find the solution. In the rare cases it is completely clueless, it still lets you focus on just the stuff it can’t do rather than all the boilerplate and noise.
I just noticed a mention of ST_Distance and had flashbacks and wanted to warn you in case it was something important.🤣 Didn’t intend to refute your otherwise very good point.