I love this, and it feels like the right approach.
It reminds me how during my engineering education cheap programmable calculators became a thing, so the good profs would tell us “the assignment questions are set up so that you could use a simple calculator or a full software package on a computer, but either way you have to understand what you’re trying to do.”
I also love the banana / Frankenstein approach as a very quick “did you even read it?” check.
