My experience is that, in many cases, people who are very good at doing something by hand are excellent at the process of doing that thing by hand, not generally excellent at doing that thing or talking about that thing or teaching others how to do that thing. And I've found it to be true (sometimes particularly true) for people who have done that thing for a long time, even if they're actively interested in finding new and better ways to do the work. Their skills are fine-tuned for a manual way of working.
Working with AI feels very, very different from writing software by hand. When I let myself lean into AI's strengths, it allows me to move much faster and often without sacrificing quality. But it takes constant effort to avoid the trap of my well-established comfort with doing things by hand.
The people who are best positioned to build incredible things with AI do not have or do not fall into that comfortable habit of manual work. They often aren't expert engineers (yet) in the traditional sense, but in a new sense that's being worked out in realtime by all of us. Gaps in technical understanding are still there, but they're being filled extremely fast by some of the best technology for learning our species has ever created.
It's hard for me to watch them and not see a rapidly approaching future where all this AI skepticism looks like self-soothing delusion from people who will struggle to adjust to the new techniques (and pace) of doing work with these tools.