Not a bad topic to talk about really, we(at least most people) are definitely moving towards a more brain lazy era, I mean we are currently in it already, but it can and will get a lot worse with time.
With automation of almost any job out there people are really giving their brain a good rest for most of the day as solving complexity is not an issue anymore, even before AI being a popular thing we were not doing great in that regard.
And as how your recommendations goes, those might help a bit but we are definitely not going back to the old times in that regard and you should expect some percentage of people to become dumber(at least in some aspects) specially as generations of people change, we can only hope we can reduce that percentage a bit by putting some (however small) restrictions on use of AI and automation for work.
Unfortunately, brain rot is viewed in the wrong way.
The brain isn't the thing that provokes a response. Rather, it is the spirit that provokes a response, often using the brain, and which the brain acts on. Without the spirit, the brain just sits there in idle, like a car in neutral.
Stimulating the spirit to start using the brain is something that must include curiosity and excitement in certain ways. And it is school training, especially in children, that attempts to quench this spiritual excitement.
Kids are inherently active, made to run around and do things. School sits them down in a classroom for hours, attempting to teach them things that they can almost learn automatically. This sitting, while good training in some ways, actually breaks their spirit. Search on "Don Tolman on photographic memory."
