Did anyone get harmed when photography was used to supplant portraits? Did anyone get harmed when mail started getting sent by rail instead of horse? Did anyone get harmed when air travel became possible? Did anyone get harmed when we supplied electric power to homes?
I have an idea -- why don't you propose a solution to AI ruining creative jobs and we can apply that standard to it.
Of course you may respond that this is unrealistic, which it is; it requires a government capable of acting via regulation in defense of its citizens, and so nothing like it will be done.
I still prefer it to your argument, which is that those crushed in the gears of "creative destruction" should be delighted to suffer and die in the name of someone else's unaccountable conception of Progress.
It would not surprise me if anyone called this pollyannaish, or even Panglossian.