If you want to make games, learn a game engine. The big 3D ones are Unity (not too hard), Unreal Engine (hard, used for AAA titles), and Bevy (in Rust, open source.) There are a ton of 2D engines, mostly used to do retro stuff.
> The big 3D ones are Unity (not too hard), Unreal Engine (hard, used for AAA titles), and Bevy (in Rust, open source.)
Bevy is pretty much unheard of outside the rust community and also quite new (= hasn't yet proven itself). Godot would be the engine most likely to win the third spot.
I would recommend against investing time learning Unity because the company is clearly insane if they though they could get away with charging developers of existing games per install [0].
Also, the suggested developer machine for UE5 with everything turned on is expensive. 64GB of RAM and a graphics card with a price over $1000 are needed to build and run the Matrix Awakens demo. And it will take hours to build. The result is a playable game that looks like a Hollywood-grade movie. You have the sources and can mod it.
Unity's change to their business model has annoyed everybody in the industry.
I doubt that. I think the bigger concern (if you could call it that) is that certain AI techniques may be able to replace entire stacks once they get advanced/stable enough. Something along the lines of this perhaps, where you render simplified geometry and let the AI fill in the blanks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1IcaBn3ej0
Even without experimental technologies, you can get a glimpse of how shipped tools like ray reconstruction can morph the field in the future, forever entrenching themselves into graphics programming one way or another.
As far as AI writing graphics code? No way, at least not in the next couple of decades. Button snippets are a far cry from rendering virtualized geometry 60 times a second.