Tech has a curious tendency to manufacture complexity. It insists upon itself the importance of work, rather than the actual contribution to the creation. Layering roles and processes until the work of managing work outweighs the work itself.
After working with music directors and cinematographers, it seems there's something a little dispiriting about a culture where crafting slide decks and routing emails is someone's full-time, but very well-paying, job. They could get out of the system, and the work would still go on. On a set, if a lighting guy messes up an angle of a light, the whole shot is ruined. In some sense, everyone's contribution is tangible and grounded in actual craft. Artists have nothing to fear from AI.
The existential air around "work" is most right now because, after AI, it's prominent how shallow so much of modern work is.
ALT Lithographie No. 1 (1925) by Wassily Kandinsky