There will always be those who persevere with the old, for personal satisfaction and just because.
To paraphrase John F. Kennedy : "We choose [these things]...not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."
AI and so on serve immeasurable purposes, yet so do time honoured skills and techniques. The human touch that AI will never have no matter how hard proponents claim "AI made by humans = human", whereas in reality ne'er the 'twain shall meet.
There will also always be show ponies and grandiose chest beaters demanding of public attention and the showiest bling one can imagine - and sometimes it is imagined - and there will be the meek and humble doing things for their own enjoyment and gratification. And these two distinct parties will also choose a methodology, and both shall be proponents thereof, and therein lies the joy of humanity - the right to choose, the right to self expression, and the right to love or loathe - to have opinion and critique. There is no right or wrong.
Am I a fan of the modern point and click insta-APOD or Facebook-Malin? No, but let's let others chose that path should they wish. The old ways will not die - we see that in revived/reviving and continuing age old traditions via the master craftsmen.
Evolve and grow, expand, but always remember the past.
