I heartily disagree, grading hand-written homework serves as an early warning signal to students who don’t understand a concept* but want to. It’s also useful to keeners who like being told "you’re doing a good job, keep it up!" As well a warning to students who are so far behind that they can save time money and their GPA by dropping the class early.

And as a TA, I liked the income, and there’s a knock-on benefit that you’re learning to read with a critical eye which will help as a reviewer in the future.

* or in mine own obsolescent field, a measure of accuracy that indicates a student need think** longer before writing in the future

** I know, I know

> Grading homework has never made sense anyway.

This is only true for subjects where there is only one answer to a question.

Plagiarism in other subjects tends to show itself. But AI has made plagiarism more viable in all sorts of fields.