> requires an ongoing subscription, initially $300/mo. Over time, increasingly expensive tiers

That's going to be on top of a rent, or instead of rent?

Black Mirror is a show which blabbing about the ending to an episode is rather uncool.

What’s the point of that? We don’t make students write their own dictionary or build their own calculator as a prerequisite for using those tools. To your point about Excel and Word, most students from 10/20 years ago don’t know what Lotus is or how to execute commands in the terminal, but are still able to use computers effectively in their lives. There’s a multitude of search engines and LLM providers available - if schools don’t like what Google is doing, they are free to swap.