Critical thinking makes one enlightened, not memorizing trivia that anyone can Google on a whim, like where Africa is on the map.

Understanding how democracy, taxes, politics, resources, compounding interest, inflation, lobbying, corruption, etc and ability to connect the dots between these, is more important for society than pointing at foreign continents on the map.

So how do you do this if you have an oracle that answers the exact question you have without any struggle? I find that the most useful things I learnt in life I bumped into after taking wrong corners while looking for something else.

By that logic we should all go back to using an abacus and slide ruler for calculations.

Life is about making progress, not struggling with outdated ways for the sake of it. Struggle isn't a virtue.

If give people the task of banging nails into a wall and one uses his head to bang nails, the other use a hammer, and the third uses a nail gun, which is more productive and valuable, the one who struggles the most or the one who gets it done quickly and efficiently?

You can google these too, why bother learning anything ?

Just press the buttons and get the peanuts, why bother being curious ?

You can google their definitions, you can't google critical thinking.