[morsch]

> why not just start there?

Because there are many categories of problems where it's much easier to verify a solution than it is to come up with it. This is true in computer science, but also more generally. Having an LLM restructure a document as a table means you have to proofread it, but it may be less tedious than doing it yourself.

I agree that asking straightforward factual questions isn't one of those cases much like I agree with most of your post.