It may scoop more air but it also has much, much more drag. The sweet spot, will be the best lift to drag ratio. I didn't put it that way exactly, but that's the idea.

Take your infinitely thin plane and fly it edge on to the air with no angle of attack. No lift, no drag. Increase the angle of attack one degree. Some lift, some drag. Increase that and you'll get increasing lift and increasing drag. Increase that to the point where your lift starts to diminish but your drag continues to increase. Back off a hair and that's your sweet spot.

In the real, physical world, there's no such thing as an infinitely thin wing, we need structure. That can be a simple, rectangular airfoil. This can do the job, we see that in indoor flyers. We even see that in the Delta Dart. But that kind of airfoil produces a lot of drag with its blunt leading edge. So we round off that edge and taper the airfoil to a sharp point at the trailing edge. Birds showed us the way.

Airfoils of various crossections give us varying characteristics according to the job we need done. Hauling the freight requires a different airfoil and force arrangement from a Red Bull racer or Yak 54. But all aircraft need to have their plane (wing) scoop the air to fly, simple as that. It's all Newtonian though Bernoulli plays a minor roll in some cases. Inertia causes air to resist being displaced. That measure of resistance of billions of molecules wanting to stay put is what provides lift. All other elements are just the effects of those billions of molecules colliding with the surface of the wing and colliding with each other. Laminar flow, Coanda effect, downwash are all just effects. Roughly speaking.

Again, when I tell the kids, "scoops the air" you can see the light go on in their eyes and they're satisfied.