I find posts like this very brave and courageous, and it makes me feel a lot of respect for the author and their personal integrity.

There's currently an enormous pressure on developers to pay lip service to loving AI tools. Expressing a differing opinion easily gets someone piled on for being outdated or not understanding things, from people who sometimes mainly do it to virtue-signal and perform their own branding exercise.

Open self-expression takes guts, and is hard to substitute for with AI assistance.