Amateur vs professional and novice vs expert are completely separate things.
You can be professional novice just as you can be expert amateur.
Now, the answer to your question is an obvious "NO". To be an expert you have to be a novice first.
The problem rather is "Are you making progress towards being an expert or are you just learning to more efficiently execute your novice workflow?"
> The way I see it, that happens because programming is still way more complex than it should be - and copilot will help with that.
No, it is just an illusion of help.
Just as your son may thank you for help when you give him an answer to his homework. From his point of view you have helped him, true, but from another point of view the point of the task wasn't to deliver answer to the teacher, it was to imprint something valuable on the mind of the child.
