The problem with essays for a lot of folks isn't knowing the material, it's adding fluff that sounds nice to get you to your word/page minimum. You can very easily add in the meat of what you want to talk about and have Chatgpt add in the filler to make it "flow", it's amazing for that. Then edit to make it sound better, and voila!

I'll never understand why academic writing poo-poos brevity. I love that a tool exists to rid yourself of the pointless busy work of an essay by writing the truth and asking a machine to expand it