There’s the saying that we overestimate what we can achieve in the short term, but underestimate what we can achieve in the long term. Optimizing for the short term is therefore counterproductive if it impairs us for the long term.

“ But I think the overall creativity and originality is a lot lower.

Therein lies the trade off. Your implicit gamble is that you expect machines to continue to get better in the future. What if they don’t?