i think to certain types of people (who are probably more likely to be mathematicians), the "self" discovery aspect of it is important, they don't want to read about a new proof for a problem they were grappling with, they want to come about it through their own thoughts.
LLMs are not feeding us things, we are asking it and getting answers. This dialectic I think is super powerful and it still requires the human to ask questions and continue expanding intellectual curiosity to go down the rabbit hole and discover. LLMs are just an incredible rubber duck but the discovery is still there.