Expressing ideas is a skill, it has value and worth, and it the first step in showing you can lead a crew to a unified vision, that you are capable of all the technical and soft skills that come with leading. Expressing an idea is THEEE entry level

If you need AI you're not fit for the role tbqh

Scorsese storyboarded Taxi Driver and you're not above Scorsese.

Once again I'm reminded of a video critiquing the use of AI to generate "historic" photographs for period POCs, and the essayist countered with the better thing would be to use actual historical photographs BECAUSE it's the truth. I'm poorly rephrasing, but you get what I mean.

“The ‘early ideation stages’, when worlds are being fleshed out by writers and artists, are literally crucial to the development of a game’s vision,” stressed Canavan. “This is what concept artists were made for. Why would you pollute that glorious creative movement with joyless, photocopied art?”

"but we have to use this technology or our shareholders-"
"but if we don't make games faster then-"
"but if our company doesn't exist then hundreds of jobs will be-"

maybe the companies that will survive will be the ones who actually still make art

because they'll stand out in a sea of slop