Your article was thought provoking Roz.
Admire you for saying what many of us are reluctant to say.
My take:
As with the mail when the phone was invented.
Radio when TV arrived
As with publishing — ebooks
Movies—Streaming
Computers—iPhones
and many other changes brought about by new technology.
Counterintuitively often changes that seem industry crushing often expand the market.
We just don’t know how. Our ability to adapt is more advanced than our ability to predict:)
Creative creatures will find a way, I’m sure.
Humans writing and humans reading their writing has been with us for thousands of years. Methods may change with AI but remaining—will always be a market for talented writers.