Like, I tried to make some character art for my game, and it can pull off some handsome faces, for sure more detailed than I'd have patience to draw,

And I think this is key. It's stupid to argue these problems won't be fixed. Give it a year and it'll pull off handsome faces without string cheese anatomy. But who's using that

You're using it for atmosphere and ambience around something where you would have simply done without. You weren't about to pay a human to draw those characters. This is very much like my own use of AI - "Hey Midjourney give me a picture of 'Fear and Loathing in Enumclaw' to share with five friends." One of those friends tried to get Microsoft Copilot to give him a logo for his studio; they were all awful. Three or four of us pointed out that he could get up on Fiverr and do infinitely better. Is that the argument, ultimately? That AI will do a better job than Fiverr? ...cuz... it's more expensive than Fiverr. It should. And also everyone on Fiverr is going to be hella better at using AI to get you what you want than you are.

The tools are always going to have shortcomings, all tools do. Professionals learn how to work around those shortcomings to do a better job faster. To me? Much of this discussion is "ZOMG nail guns are going to put framing carpenters out of business."