> Is there a way to meaningfully be wary of it?

Refusing to participate. May involve accepting lower productive output and thus "standard of living".

Considering how society-at-large handled the smartphone, I can definitely see concern for general cognitive decline as a result of externalizing ever more mental activity to machines. As well as the concerns voiced by Frank Herbert in the concept of Butlerian Jihad.

> There was a point when being a dev required things like download size optimization and performance profiling. How many devs today even conceptually know of those, yet alone do them?

Way too few, with a general decline of quality and much waste as a result.