I assure you, working with LLMs is intellectually challenging, and becomes more so as the technology matures.
/s/intellectually/emotionally
I find it intellectually exhausting to describe to a machine what I want, when I could build something better in the same amount of time, and it isn't for lack of understanding how the LLM works.
It takes a lot of cajoling to get an LLM to produce a result I want to use. It takes no cajoling for me to do it myself.
The only time "AI" helps is in domains that I am unfamiliar with, and even then it's more miss than hit.
It really really really depends on how you are using it and what you are using it for.
I can get LLMs to write most CSS I need by treating it like a slot machine and pulling the handle till it spits out what I need, this doesnt cause me to learn CSS at all.