>>LLMs are at best, bad teachers.
I could not disagree more.
ChatGPT is patient. That's a rare quality in humans and teachers.
ChatGPT will willingly explore. That's also a rare quality in teachers.
ChatGPT is detailed and structured, and has instant access to enormous amount of data and background.
I will grant you that there are domains of knowledge and questions where it's great, and where it'll lie to you through your teeth. But as a patient, detailed, willing, knowledgeable tutor in basic/well-covered areas, it's virtually unparalleled. I'm a hungry learner and have had large number of teachers, tutors and mentors through several continents, countries, societies and educational paradigms; and only the very very top are as good - and I've actually been the lucky one. My wife and my sister, for example, based on their accounts, simply never had a teacher/tutor as good as ChatGPT :-<