Your ability to sell that creation is certainly affected by the competition. Which affects your ability to put food on the table, so to speak.
If the motive is profit then you should be adopting AI just like you have adopted any other skill or tool of your profession.
I mentioned this in another comment, but we are social animals, we get most joy by sharing what we have created. And the problem now is that it's getting very hard to share and discover genuine creations vs AI-generated ones.