So do it. Everything AI assisted I've made has involved a ton of work. The only difference AI has made is that I've increased the level of my ambition and avoided a ton of things that were previously blockers.
If you want it, and you think it's easy to replace, try to reproduce it with AI.
If you find that it is harder than you thought, then go back and pay for the original.
generating an ai image of a potato is a better comparison.
That's the analogous equivalent of spending the tokens to use AI to make this project.
The analogous equivalent of growing a potato yourself over months would be creating this website without AI.