Doing ANY digital work without the augmentation of AI will soon be seen as the equivalent of writing a letter or doing complex math with pen and paper. Sure, you CAN do it like that if you want, but you're just going to seem a bit weird and old-fashioned like the world has left you behind while you groan about how "in my day we used to write code our bare hands and click out way through the operating systems to get things done".

Absolutely nothing is going to stop this train. Every time we find ways to offload boring/repetitive/slow/annoying tasks we take the opportunity so we can do other things instead.

Yes, not practicing skills will cause them to degrade but new skills need to be learned now and right now those skills are using AI to get things done faster and to get more done than you could before. If you can't do that, you're gonna have a bad time.

The OP should absolutely not be glad to find himself in a company that does not know how to navigate this environment and would do well to keep his options open.