@baldur These are good points, thank you. Maybe that's the heart of my inner conflict: these tools "work" (for some definition of "work") but they are inherently dehumanizing and insulting. They make a mockery of my ~20 years of hard-won expertise.
Ezra Klein in his podcast once said that the core "message" of GenAI (in the McLuhan sense) is: "You are derivative." I totally agree with that.