Fuck AI

And they will always lack those skills if they never practice!

That's not really relevant. AI lets you skip the prerequisite 2000 hours of mastery practice if all you need to do is create a specific render of something in a specific style.

I do have my own artistic endeavors. But not everything needs to be "earned" through countless evenings and thousands of dollars of materials, YouTube courses, studio time, whatever. The other day I made an event invitation in the style of stop motion animation. It was for a free event and the end result was really charming. I had fun prompt crafting to make it exactly like how I wanted.

Though I suppose I could have spent a few years making dolls as a hobby, set up a photo studio in my home, paid for a high quality camera, and spent a few weeks fabricating custom dolls for my little event invite. Not sure that was worth experiencing the "act of creation", at least moreso than I felt making it using the image gen.