Same. I find LLMs are pretty good at helping me understand things I didn't know that I didn't know, that I really needed to know. Which has never been easy to get in a timely manner exclusively through more classic means of research.

That and it's good for going down rabbit holes of questioning a topic that, before, you'd have to reserve for when you accidentally find a resource that perfectly answers that niche question line, or when you're somehow in conversation with someone who has expertise in the thing you're questioning.