If you truly felt it wasn't shameful to write with AI, you wouldn't write an article trying to justify it that ignores a bunch of reasons people find it shameful.

No one is stopping you using AI, but there's an adolescent tone here of 'and you have to approve of me' that I don't care for. You have the right to act the way you wish; you don't have the right to be praised for it.

As it happens, I do think writing with AI (outside of translation as a method of last resort) is shameful. It's an embarrassing abdication of a basic task, a signal both that you can't complete basic tasks unaided, and that you don't understand that communication isn't solely performative.

If it's your right to use AI to write those super-difficult emails, then it's my right to judge you for it.