> Professionally you are downgrading

It is the contrary!

You learn using a very powerfool tool. This is a tool, like text editor and compiler.

But you focus on the logic and function more instead of syntax details and whims of the computer languages used in concert.

The analogy from construction is to be elevated from being a bricklayer to an engineer. Or using various shaped shovels with wheelbarrel versus mechanized tools like excavators and dumpers in making earthworks.

... of course for those the focus is in being the master of bricklayers, which is noble, no pun intended, saying with agreeing straight face, bricklaying is a fine skill with beautiful outputs in their area of use. For those AI is really unnecessary. An existential threat, but unnecessary.