No. You're gatekeeping what "craft" is.

Is craft making your own chisels for woodworking?

Perhaps there are craftsman who buy chisels made by others.

Okay. Then is craft only making furniture with dovetail joints by hand?

Well, I guess people use planers.

So, no it's not just hand made wood working that's craft.

Someone uses a CnC machine with a design they made to cut wood, then hand sands and polishes. Is that craft?

What if you learned it took them three or four times as many hours to learn the CnC machine and design as it did to hand plane a cedar log?

To be clear, I don't identify as an artist at all, but I do have a stake in this conversation -- which is that I'd like more young folks to be positive, pick up tools at their disposal and build good things with them. The future's coming, and it's going to be built out by people with open minds who are soaking up everything they can about whatever tools are available. It's a sort of brain rot to gatekeep technology advances out of creativity.

Sorry, I think you missed the sarcasm in my original post. I am saying that gatekeeping what art is, and what theft is, typically ignores exactly how art is made, how artists are trained, and the history of tools impacting creative endeavors -- basically close to what you say here: there are logical and historical errors that invalidate these complaints in my mind.

p.s. def not an artist.