I agree with pretty much everything you said. I think Ai art is fine as long as it's properly marked as such and the training data can be traced back to the original creater and their consent was given to use their work for Ai purposes.
Once the honeymoon is over I believe Ai will become just another tool that can be used to speed up different tasks. Some will try to fully automate processes with Ai, but especially in art I don't think it will ever come close to replace stuff created by humans. (At least I hope so)
Thank you for your work (´･ω･`)