> Am I the weird one here?

Yes. I think it depends on one's goals.

You can ask, in the same vein, why use Python instead of C? Isn't the real joy of programming in writing effective code with manual memory management and pointers? Isn't the real joy in exploring 10 different libraries for JSON parsing? Or in learning how to write a makefile? Or figuring out a mysterious failure of your algorithm due to an integer overflow?

TBH I am not sure AI is better either (see https://youtube.com/shorts/QZCHax14ImA), but it's probably gonna get figured out.