Agreed 100% and I enjoy that part too, I just don't really see how that is being taken away.

The way I see it these tools allow me to use my actual brainpower mostly on those problems. Because all the rote work can now be workably augmented away, I can choose which problems to actually focus on "by hand" as it were. I'd never give those problems to an LLM to solve. I might however ask it to search the web for papers or articles or what have you that have solved similar problems and go from there.

If someone is giving that up then I'd question why they're doing that.. No one is forcing them to.

It's the problem solving itself that is fun, the "layer" that it's in doesn't really make a difference to me.