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I am maybe not using copy-editing the way you are (feel free to correct me what is more typical in the field). My prompt is not much different than "review the text for minor grammar and spelling errors, and list the corrections you would suggest". I accept the large majority of the suggestions.

For technical review of the content, I just send it out to other experts.

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Assuming that the result you get is reliable (I would not assume that), maybe that is enough. I had one book here where the author frequently repeated herself--sentences that basically said the same thing she'd just said in a previous paragraph. I had to cut all that. One with a lot of useless filler phrases that added nothing. Another where the author wrote whole paragraphs in the form of rhetorical questions. It was much better rephrased as statements. I did a lot of fact-checking on one book. Jargon that can be translated into English. Tables and charts where the data is not well organized. I mean, it goes on and on.

I know what you mean by "cannot write out of a paper bag". Agree AI won't help those folks (I honestly don't know how anyone has enough patience to help them).

My above prompt does indeed work well for me, but agree would likely not catch those example errors you list.

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