I'm mixed on the "craft" aspect of it. I don't hate coding, but there's definitely times where it feels like it's just some time plumbing. I don't get satisfaction out of that kind of stuff.

I'm pragmatic and simply don't trust current LLM's to do much in my domain. All that tribal knowledge is kept under lock and key at studios, so good luck scraping the net to find more than the very basic samples of how to do something. I've spent well over a decade doing that myself; the advanced (and even a lot of intermediate) information is slim and mostly behind paywalls or books.