That's a terrible comparison. GC is there to take care of one specific implementation detail in a "good enough" way so that you can focus on more productive work.

People are starting to rely on LLMs to do almost everything they've been hired to do for them.

And sure enough, people practiced only in garbage collected environments are the ones who struggle most to work with Rust's borrow checker or write sound embedded/IOT code, or to attend to refence leaks in things like event listeners.

Did they help people write lots of effective code faster? Yes.

Did they breed a generation of people with little intuition around how memory works? Also yes.