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There is no art without process though. The art is the process. Is an automatic piano more beautiful than a world class pianist? Of course not.

I am not strictly equating this to coding though. Like the GP sometimes I am driven more by the product than by being able to make it by hand. But that does not mean vibe coding, I still make sure the code is up to my standards.

Maybe for the person who automated the piano it is

Well, a large swath of both sides are wrong in that they insist theirs is the only valid perspective.

Employees are rewarded by the process

Employers/owners are rewarded by the end result

It's obvious why employees using an LLM would get burnt out