I wouldn't call myself anything serious as a photographer; OTOH some serious photographers whom I follow start turning more into 3D artists or videographers.
Photography as a profession seems to be in a crisis: not that it's not needed, it's that many adjacent things (3D, video, design, marketing) are also needed, not unlike in programming: there's almost no such thing as a senior (e.g.) Python developer, there are senior Web, Data, etc. developers which primarily use Python along with other tools (JS, sql, etc).
Amateur astrophotography is a good example of where software is utilized to fill in gaps in the hardware all of the time. Color correction and focus stacking are often done in software, star tracking mounts are using software, and so on.
Joking aside, I wouldn't doubt this creeping into the film industry or other professional photography. Everything already goes through so much post processing, color correction, etc etc.
Remember when "personal" computers weren't fashionable among "serious" programmers? Or GUIs, or scripting languages, or the web?
Whenever the choice is "software that's only 80% as good" or "more expensive hardware", the former will win every time.
But yes, the best photographers are generally trained to spot exactly the right framing and composition from the moment the moment the photo is snapped.