This 100%. Same goes with music: because of yt/tiktok, today it's easier to learn to play an instrument. Or even faster to use music software or an AI tool, but it's still almost as impossible like ever to make a great song.
I've also once experienced burnout, a book called Pedram Shojai: The Urban Monk has kept it away since. It's practical, not religious. Highly recommend it!
Thunderbird is great and was my main email app for a decade – until I de-googled my life. I think settings were a horrible mess, but after that UX sending/receiving email were great.
Those were the days. Former Nokia (N9 Meego) employees formed Jolla and it is still alive. They nowadays sell tens of thousands of Linux phones, so not taking over the phone market.
If quality training data is the most important piece regarding to AI, expect everything to be collected and analyzed. Don't even trust OS containers but run AI on separate hardware