I can say from first hand experience that something has absolutely changed.

Before AI, if I had the knowledge/skill to do something on the large scale, but there were a bunch of minute/mundane details I had to figure out before solving the hard problems, I'd just lose steam from the boredom of it and go do something else. Now I delegate that stuff to AI. It isn't that I couldn't have learned how to do it, it's that I wouldn't have because it wouldn't be rewarding enough.

That’s great - you personally have found a tool that helps you overcome unknown problems. Other people have other methods for doing that. Maybe AI makes that more accessible in general.