The analogy makes a lot of sense to me. Once you have an “easy button”, it’s hard to not use it. It’s sort of like when you’re at work and see the “quick workaround” effectively become the standard process.
I remember burning out on games because the cheats made them really fun in the short term, but afterward playing normally felt like agony.
If you want to speedrun Idiocracy, an overreliance on AI seems a good way to get there.
Brawndo has what plants crave.
You spelled “RIP Civilization” in a weird way, but it tracks.