I think the premise was, before you had to actually do some work to create the thesis. And there was always the concern that yours could be one which was read deeply, so that thesis work had to at least show that you did some work. That there was meat behind the paper.

But now, it could simply be all a couple of prompts to an LLM.

The bar is just lower for not doing the work, now.

But really, that's the fact everywhere.