I'd even say Scholze is not a great example here. Most of the work he's known for is progression towards the Langlands program - which is very much a problem to be solved, and one I would imagine he'd not be thrilled for an AI to one-shot. I agree that it is somewhat 'up the chain', in the same way that software engineering has not immediately disappeared now that performing coding tasks is largely automatable.

But I also take issue with 'never been a better time' - e.g. is this really the greatest time to be a software engineer? Everyone has AI psychosis and feels like they're a couple of breakthroughs away from being unemployable. The same is even more true in math - we've gone from failing IMO problem 6 last year, to solving NS. The rate of change is formidable, it feels like there may not be many places to hide in a few years.