How people derive utility varies from person to person and I suspect is the root cause of most AI generation pipeline debates, creative and code-wise. There are two camps that are surprisingly mutually exclusive:

a) People who gain value from the process of creating content.

b) People who gain value from the end result itself.

I personally am more of a (b): I did my time learning how to create things with code, but when I create things such as open-source software that people depend on, my personal satisfaction from the process of developing is less relevant. Also, getting frustrated with code configuration and writing boilerplate code is not personally gratifying.