I agree with your sentiment, though I'd argue that a camera also can't do anything that a dedicated enough painter can't also do, just with a lot more labor involved. Especially if you only look at it from the result perspective (even though that's only one part of the art, that's unfortunately the only part that counts for many people)

The unfortunate truth for art is that gen AI will stay, and they will take work from artists, just like photography did from painters. There will be a niche for it at some point, and until it finds that niche people will fight over it.