Like those laborers who went jobless after the waves of industrial evolution, they should have been planning earlier for other jobs and skills, rather than focusing solely on the fulfillment from making goods.
But yes, like with the Waymo destruction and people booing AI SWSX and the recent study the UK will at least lose 8 million jobs to AI, the changes are hard to imagine.
Like watching Terminator where Sarah is running around searching for a public telephone.
A painter gets in it for the painting, not painting management or painting business strategy technical directorship or touching up photographs taken by the new machine.
PS: I feel this way and I'm way younger than you. ;p I don't think it's an age thing as much as a "we were sold the idea that we could code" thing.