I used to know how to make physically accurate shaders with math. Then Blender introduced the Principled BSDF.
I used to spend hours lighting interiors with hundreds of lights. Then Cycles brought native path tracing to Blender.
People assume AI is different and that it will magically automate “everything else”. But there’s no correct answer to actual creativity. Ask 100 artists to design a vehicle for a fictional planet and you’ll get 100 wildly different results. How can you possibly train for the correct answer, when there is none?
3D artists have long careers ahead of them as 3D offers drastically more control than text. Some skills will become less valuable under certain AI workflows. I’m not thrilled about losing a skill I spent time learning any more than you are, but this isn’t new.