These same discussion happened with photoshop and “brush tools” why are those acceptable to make it less labor intensive, but this isn’t?

You’re missing the point. “This makes things easier” isn’t the problem, it’s more along the lines of “this is only possible by stealing the works of countless people, it will attempt to obviate their jobs, and make billionaires even richer.” People aren’t mad you want to work less, they’re mad you’ll make things worse, and won’t even bother to grasp how.

It’s more hypocrisy over purism, as you’ve so nicely pointed out.

Comparing GenAI to brush tools is extremely disingenuous, talk about hypocrisy.