As far as I can tell, the AI-hate is most prominent in tech circles (creativity too, but they don't like media generation, largely embrace text though).
It seems here on the ground in non-tech bubble land, people use ChatGPT a ton and lean hard on AI features.
When Google judges the success of bolted on AI, they are looking at how Jane and John General Public use it, not how xleet007 uses it(or doesn't).
There is also the fact that AI is still just being bolted onto things now. The next iteration of this software will be AI native, and the revisions after that will iron out big wrinkles.
When settings menus and ribbon panels are optional because you can just tell the program what to do in plain English, that will be AI integration.
replies(3):