> So, it sounds like nothing of much value has been lost.

Do you actually mean this? To me this sounds like someone said "you never learn anything by reading a high school essay", and you reply "so stop writing them". The point is not the product, you obviously train people by making the product.

> AI is starting to show that the emperor called academia has no clothes.

Seriously, what are you talking about. Academia in the last century has been the most successful engine of knowledge and technology in human history. Lots of papers are junk, like lots of businesses are junk, lots of books are junk. But I don't know how any serious person can say academia has no clothes.