I ask for help from ChatGPT before I go all in, and it creates these old-fashioned ASCII graphics to show how the flow will be. I think newcomers will not have the bad habits we have/had.

That's really not enough or the same, trust me. You can't outsource your entire understanding to ChatGPT, and I say this as someone who's keen on getting help from AI assistants to write boilerplate code, rubberduck bugs or debate design decisions