I sincerely do have a ton of compassion for you in how this is affecting your life, and I can empathize with existential anxiety to a degree that most folks won't understand. It sucks to be stressed out when it seems like everything should be possible.

Here's what I can say from the other side: you can only control what you can control, but you will be surprised to realize that you can control a lot if you put in the hours and just doggedly refuse to let problems stop your progress.

I don't think that the answer is a one-man fight against the zeitgeist, though. I promise you that blaming LLMs will quickly go from reasonable position to crutch to weakness. Like bankruptcy, it tends to happen very slowly and then very quickly.

If you treat good LLMs as a tireless mentor that needs to be reigned in and verified, you too can learn stackable skills quickly.