Bad analogy. More like, "Professional painter says he doesn't employ low wage contractors to paint for him"
If your rebuttal is "Michelangelo would've only painted the broad strokes and the faces" you're still missing the point that he still /did some painting/.
where in Ai use did you find low wage contractors?
both Photography and Ai are literally "click a (shutter) button" - so photo analogy is perfect
And Michelangelo is bad example because it's "ye old paintings" (you could've at least tried with Picasso or smth) - while my argument would be "painters got replaced by photographers"