Douglas Adams captured this in "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", a VCR watches TV for you and an Electric Monk believes things for you to save you the effort of doing it yourself.
When LLMs arrived I thought of all the jobs people wouldn't want a computer to do, and top of my list was religious figures. But then I read an article saying people use chatbots as virtual pastors now. I did think about Gently.
At least it can't replace the horse in my bathroom.