> Since so many claim the opposite

The overwhelming majority of those claiming the opposite are a mixture of:

- users with wrong expectations, such as AI's ability to do the job on its own with minimal effort from the user. They have marketers to blame.

- users that have AI skill issues: they simply don't understand/know how to use the tools appropriately. I could provide countless examples from the importance of quality prompting, good guidelines, context management, and many others. They have only their laziness or lack of interest to blame.

- users that are very defensive about their job/skills. Many feel threatened by AI taking their jobs or diminishing it, so their default stance is negative. They have their ego to blame.