Do you feel the same way about high-level languages instead of writing your own assembly? How about using a bulldozer when a simple shovel could do? Copilot doesn't "do all the thinking for you", it's glorified autocomplete.

> Any tool that makes you more productive at the cost of taking away the pleasure of figuring it out on your own bores and depresses me

I mean, you don't have to use these tools yourself, particularly since you have to pay for it and therefore there is no "it is free" allure.

While I understand what you are saying about the pleasure of figuring things out yourself (and do enjoy that feeling myself), I don't feel that the mere existence of the tool affects me that much.