Photography is an instrument the results of which are strongly dependent from the ability of the artist and technologist adopting it.

To the best of my understanding, DALL-E offers limited control and cannot be compared to a brush with paint, a photocamera, a virtual canvas for curves for illustration, a coding console.

Why? Because the weight of the user, its "importance", its "impact", is limited with that tool. (A commissioner is not an artist. A photographer may be.)

As HN member Moe wrote, «Bad analogies are like Vietnam».

and it was true until photography matured just like it is now with art generating AI. At least have a look at the early technology of your strawman argument. A better analogy would be the switch to digital photography it was really exciting because of the ease of use but years down the road nobody could use their early digital images for anything but stamps because of their atrocious quality.