> AI can generate the components now at the same time it's doing everything else, so no reason to pay for their templates
So the AI can do a better job than the average front end web developer? Maybe you should take it a step further from “no reason to pay for templates”…
It seems to me that this is the way the market is heading. Strange bleeding edge perf or sprawling complexity feels like the last niche of front end engineers. The rest will move further down the stack or be replaced.