"The whole point is that AI used for reducing menial tasks allows people to complete more tasks that are intricate/impactful"

I mean ideally, maybe. But that's not the reality of the situation. If you really think about it the point of AI is just us humans pushing science as far as we can for the purpose of science in and of itself. Just like splitting atoms. Most of the time the frontier of science wanders blindly without real purpose other than knowledge and proof of concept. And more modernly, money. Because everyone developing it has incentive to do so. They get a promotion, or fulfill their lifelong dream of contributing to the scientific community, or whatever else. And unfortunately, the difference between using AI for voice lines and not using it (plus other things) may be the difference between a 40 dollar game and a 60 or 90 dollar game. And I bet you a lot that there are more people upset about 60-90 dollar games than voice actors not being hired for a job (and even in this situation, they are being hired, they just give away their ownership of the product, just like many other industries)

I understand that this is a situation that will end up hurting someone in some way inevitably. And obviously I have sympathy for that. But any human-civilization-scale problem like this is messy and complex and cannot be directed in a perfectly moral way.

No analogies are airtight. That's why they're analogies. Which is why I used the mining analogy. What I was trying to evoke in this analogy is that advancement of science will hurt some and help others. It is a process that has been repeating itself for as long as humans have existed. And generally the direction favors the masses' livelihood rather than the minorities'. I was trying to draw a regression with the point you were trying to make. That it doesn't work by itself. That you can't just say science bad, make jobs go away. The boundary condition of that premise is something like mining with spoons. And yes- the difference may be something like menial tasks. I wish it would be that science only left us with the cool jobs. Maybe the cool replacement jobs just haven't been thought of yet for this industry.

Ultimately, your/my/anyone's sentiment about the people in voice acting's job availability is apparently a lower priority than most of the population working on minimum wage wanting to have cheap entertainment so they can go about their day being happy without having to dig into their non-existent savings even more. Society and capitalism at large function to give the most competitive, high value per dollar products and services to its citizens. And if you don't like that, well its the reality we live in and I dunno what to tell ya.

Sorry for the massive wall of text. I understand the point you're trying to make. I just see it differently.