The bigger problem, IMHO, is the attitude that it's some kind of moral quandry if technology allows us to solve a problem without effort. For example, I've heard people really say that an obesity-preventing drug would be a bad thing because it would discourage exercise. This fetishization of hardship does a lot of harm, because in reality, the kind of progress we can make as a civilization essentially amounts to refocusing exertion on increasingly impactful things.
Other examples of this phenomenon:
Direct atmospheric carbon removal is bad. It encourages emissions!
Contraceptives are bad. They encourage sexual license! (I had to try to avoid the obvious joke here.)
Highways are bad! They encourage driving.
Word processors are bad. They discourage good penmanship!
Fertilizers and farm equipment are bad! They discourage small family farms!
GPS navigation is bad! It discourages map reading and mental direction finding!
Some of these examples look ridiculous to us now, but people really did think these things at some point. I see some opposition to autonomous vehicles falling into the same category.