As an analogy, it is currently possible to cross the country in 6 hours.

That fact does not imply that a person in Boston in the year 1850 should wait until commercial flight was available to travel to California.

So the fact that we will eventually have simpler/more efficient algorithms doesn’t tell us anything about what to do today.

Or, if you want to make a plastic phone case, 3D printing can absolutely do that for you. But if you look for a way to make thousands of high-quality phone cases quickly and cheaply, you'll realize that injection molding hasn't been made obsolete.