Now the question is - no one was born good or best engineer/programmer/scientist. Often it was a long path of sleepless nights, daily grinding, failing million times, doing dumb mistakes along the way, the usual package of suffering sometimes called "experience". What is the path now for the next generation of good or best engineers? There will be no opportunities/budget to do the same anymore.
"The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill, while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth"
That's not an interesting question, it'll be the same path as before but somewhat longer.