But in my case, I don't happen to find drawing or painting enjoyable. I simply don't, for nature- or nurture-based reasons. I also don't believe that everyone can become a trained manual artist, because not everyone is interested in doing so, even if they still (rightly or wrongly) cling to the idea of having instant creative output and gratification.
I think this lack of interest is what makes me and many other people a prime target for addiction to AI-generated art. Due to my interest in programming I can tweak the experience using my skills without worrying about the baggage people of three years ago had to deal with if they wanted a similar result.
So without any sort of generation, how does one solve the problem of not wanting to draw, but still wanting one's own high-quality visual product to enjoy? I guess it would be learning to be interested in something one is not. And that probably requires virtuosity and integrity, a willingness to move past mistakes, and a positive mindset. The sorts of things that have little to do with the specific mechanics of writing code in an IDE to provoke a dopamine response. Also, the ability to stop focusing so hard on the end result, a detriment to creativity that so many (manual) art classes have pointed out for decades.
I sometimes feel I lack some of those kinds of qualities, and yet I can somehow still generate interesting results with Stable Diffusion. It feels like a contradiction, or an invalidation of a set of ideas many people have held as sacred for so long, a path to the advancement of one's own inner being.
I will relish the day when an AI is capable of convincing me that drawing with my own two hands is more interesting than using its own ability to generate a finished piece in seconds.
So I agree that, on a bigger scale beyond the improvement of automated art, this line of thinking will do more harm to humanity than good. An AI can take the fall for people who can't or don't want to fight the difficult battles needed to grow into better people, and that in turn validates that kind of mindset. It gives even the people who detest the artistic process a way to have the end result, and a decent one at that.
I think this is part of the reason why the anti-AI-art movement has pushed back so loudly. AI art teaches us the wrong lessons of what it means to be human. People could become convinced to not want to go outside and walk amongst the trees and experience the world if an AI can hallucinate a convincing replacement from the comfort of their own rooms.