But I will still be entertained. Expedient AI expression can touch most people the same way a low effort meme or an off the cuff whitticism.

Art is not effort. Art is not labour. Beauty is not suffering. Art =/= craft. Art is communication.

If someone wants to suffer long the endurance journey to becaome skilled at a craft we can still respect/appreciate it the same way a sprinter spends 10 years training to run real fast, in the mean time most of us will use a vehicle to get somewhere faster.

What we're going to lose is a bunch of interesting behind the scene videos because no one is going to watch someone prompt for an hour wondering why can't I do that, but rather why didn't I do that.

Proliferating tools for creation is net good in the same sense that teaching masses to write is net good. It's strange people are opposing lowering the barrier to entry to visual communication. That's what art ultimately is, communication. Once difficult, soon ubiquituous.