It has become much easier to do stuff like that even if you suck at photo editing.
In my career I’ve heard about one thing after another that was going to make programmers obsolete. It may happen but I doubt it, because coding isn’t the hard part of software development.
Perhaps people who nowadays make a living on making small websites for small mom- and pop-shops will replace themselves with an AI and they will mostly care about design instead. They will have more time on other stuff, increasing the quality all over.
That said, it's hard to tell either way. The future is hard to predict, I wouldn't have guessed I could generate the amount we now can just one year ago. It's hard to imagine many years of progress and what that could potentially lead to.
Why does anyone doing that kind of work still get jobs? Ignorance plays some part, of course. In my experience a lot of business owners believe they are unique and special and need something “custom.” It’s a status thing as best I can tell.
Back in the ‘90s I started refusing to write custom accounting systems for customers because QuickBooks could do everything they needed until they graduated to the big leagues, where enterprise software solutions dominate. They never listened, always sure they were too different to use something as pedestrian as accounting software in a box.
Programmers aren’t immune. Look at all of the functionally equivalent languages and tools we argue about. Notice programmers writing that they can’t use an IDE or web site that doesn’t have dark mode. How many more “to do list” apps will we endure? Freud called it “the narcissism of small differences.”
The same human tendency explains why we have many more cars available than Toyota Camrys and Ford F-150s.
When you pay a person, you're paying for more than the output. Maybe they'll use a GPT/LLM model behind the scenes, but I also use bucket-loads of coffee behind the scenes. That doesn't mean a bag of Stumptown can build your analytics architecture.
As an example of this I generated an image of a dog with an AI and then I put it in the vectormagic.com's tool. The result is very good since the image is not a logo style but an advanced image with a lot of detail.
https://vectormagic.com/images/kvzrgcxyjp45m/edit/p24qfcqegj...
So yeah, still stands. If you can stomach messy, unpredictable outputs, use an automated solution. If you want something lean and usable, use a human-being.