Like all new technology, it is how you use it that matters. If you take your own thought, for instance, it can take the drudgery out of cleaning it up and making it into English. Somewhat like the calculator took 11 hours of work out of 12 for my physics labs when we only had slide rules. I could concentrate on the physics and not playing with bamboo sliders.
When used appropriately it can be an incredible tool. For me writing some thing like a two page analysis is one hour analysis and 4 hours or rewriting it to sound good. Same with diagrams. I can scribble a diagram and it can turn it into a textbook ready illustration.

