As much as I hate to say it, you're ultimately burying your head in the sand.

It's not that AI is so great, but that we really are in a different era defined by creative constipation and politics.

What will unclog the jam is making something and sharing it. I don't think anyone cares if you use AI to create some of it as long as it's not slop or too derivative. Things will recover, but it will never be the same.