Spot on. Agreeing with every part of your post.
As a university teacher (in a leading UK research institution). I am seeing this effect already. A dramatic shift in attitudes over the past two years. Many students seem to have lost the appetite to discover the underlying truth of their subject, or to experiment with the tools of their subject. They seem to trust that whenever knowledge is needed, they will be able to query the Big Knowledge Machine and it will produce whatever they need to know. Not everyone, of course, and not in every aspect, but the trend is there and seems overwhelming. I hope for a reverse movement, but currently that isn't happening.