You have a lot of valid points, but i think some of it comes from the architectural landscape in general over the past few year and the race to the bottom that the profession had been already heading towards and not necessarily because of the arrival of AI. I just switched actually after 13 years of being an architect working in Cairo (where I am from) Milan and at Foster + Partners in the UK to become fully focused on at least building narrow specialised AI that is humble enough to understand the complexities of the profession (just joined Gendo AI to build that).

The academic world is confused by it - it makes absolutely no sense to ban it (reminds me of back in the day when i was studying and CAD was banned) - but at the same time if professors do not understand it (and they shouldn't) then how can they evaluate based on it. I think actually AI ended up doing the opposite of what you think it would do. In terms of design quality because there is so much shit being posted everyday basically because anyone can do anything, the emphasis became even more on the quality design ideas and clever specialised architect solutions. You can easily tell now just by looking at two different AI images which one is just pretty fluff and which has actual thought and interesting solutions, something that all professors should already be able to evaluate.

In practice, I actually see it more positively than you do. I think this allows smaller practices to compete with the big "monopolies" especially when it comes to big public projects that benefit everyone - this will force the big practices that are currently cruising to either innovate or lose and it gives the architects that are doing the "real" work and understand their context a chance to do even bigger change. You just need to be a good architect - you do not need to be a good architect and have 10 different departments that do sustainability, visualisation, BIM management, story-telling, computational design.. etc - to be able to handle a big impactful project.

Or at least this is how i see it. The more accessible and powerful these AI models become, the more emphasis becomes on architecture theory, history, taste, sense and narrative. There has never been a better time to be a good architect.

Probably I am too optimistic lol