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You raise a good point in that we frequently conflate "new" and "worse" (or "dangerous"), a tendency that seems to get stronger the older we get. The devil you know and all that.
I don't plan to go full Luddite either, most likely. But (and hopefully this was clear from my post) I do plan to be skeptical about the promised capabilities of these things. I would also include in that any attempt to shoehorn a LLM into something that really doesn't need it. There is also the danger of a monopoly. All of these things are applicable with pretty much any new technology, and as you say we've managed to keep stumbling along despite ourselves.
"Disruption" has certainly become a buzzword these days, but here too it's typically over-hyped. Unfortunately, when there is disruption, it's usually the weakest among us who are most harmed by it.