By all means do use it as much as you can. I am using it too. However, dropping everything you do to chase the trend is risky business. It could yield a lot but could also be a waste, eg becoming a professional prompt engineer or such.
There’s more value in solving your current problems with it than completely delving deep into AI unless you were already on this path for some time.
But there might be some benefits to not waiting, and some opportunities that are available now that might not be available later. Like for me it's already saving me time in development and helping generate ideas for my board game designs that have been stuck, in some cases, for a long time.
I would agree that you shouldn't be beating yourself up for not learning it right away and think you're in trouble if you don't learn it immediately. But it might be worth looking into anyway.