the same was uttered by blacksmiths and other craftsman who has been displaced by technology. Yet they are mercilessly crushed.
Your enjoyment of a job is not a consideration to those paying you to do it; and if there's a more efficient way, it will be adopted. The idea that your job is your identity may be at fault here - and when someone's identity is being threatened (as it very much is right now with these new AI tools), they respond very negatively.
