Probably. Most people hate to think anyway. I remember back at university, I was one of maybe two or three people who actually enjoyed the discussions we've had - rest of the class simply wanted to go home as quickly as possible.
You're probably not wrong. In the Guardian article they mentioned, there's one quote that pretty much sums up what you're saying: "I’ve always known in my head that it was probably better for me to do the work on my own [...] I’m kind of a bit worried that using ChatGPT will make brain kind of atrophy because I’m not using it to its fullest extent."