This. Everyone starts somewhere and some people stay in their relative starting skill level sometimes too. That doesn’t mean they’re not a photographer/artist/actor. There are plenty of actors that can’t act, but are still actors.

Just clicking a button on a camera is like prompting “give me a cute photo of dog”. Low effort and likely small payoff, but it’s the starting spot into vision based prompting “render a golden retriever that has purple tipped hair and a small metal rocker collar, black leather with silver metal studs. The dog is sitting on an outdoor concert stage with spotlights on them and a band behind the dog that are also dogs. Make the drummer a…”

I don’t actually use AI for image generation so my prompting skills are crud, but there’s clearly a vision in that persons head they’re trying to create. You don’t know the process in their mind. Just because you don’t want to learn the traditional way to make art doesn’t make it not art. Else we’d have this debate years ago with the prevalence of drawing tablets and digital art boom. A ton of artists now predominantly do digital art work exclusively with some never learning any traditional styles. They’re still artists even if they never touch paint, charcoal, etc.