You can ask followup questions about the code it wrote. Without it you would need more effort and search more to understand the code snippet you found.
For me it completely replaced googling.
Idk, of the top of my head, I can't even remember the last time exactly. It's definitely >6 month ago.
Maybe that's the reason some people are so enthusiastic about it? They just didn't really know the tools they're using yet. Which is normal I guess, everyone starts at some point.