It also substantially raises the "quality" of the low end effort which is a pretty big deal, whether you consider that a good thing or not.
I think it's great for things like a client conceptualizing what they want which in the past could be difficult and very labour/time consuming. Take that concept to a real artist and it's pretty win-win.
this is why i tend to think about AI images like a camera, it's not creative but it can make things that look nice, and then we can take inspiration to make something creative just like when we walk outside and look at the per definion uncreative physical landscape.
We're in sync then, your initial comment made it sound like you thought any camera work was not creative by default. As I said to the other guy I should've used a different phrasing to clear out the confusion around tool/artist.