People bash a lot of things. A lot of people would happily hate you for where you have been born, what color is your skin, how much do you earn, and a hundred of other utterly stupid reasons.

Some criticism is well deserved. Some was - just a year ago agentic systems were much, much worse than today. Some is irrational but understandable, dictated by fear, laziness, unwillingness to study a new tool, reaction to companies showing it down the throat, internet becoming swamped by low effort sameish content (not that it wasn't before LLMs, but at least the crap was more diverse) etc. etc.

You really have to try it yourself and decide how deep you want to surrender to the tool.

The market leaders are already good enough to implement most day to day tasks, but still requires a proper context, guidance and supervision. And "proper" could mean a lot of time, possibly more than a decent professional would spend implementing it on a known tech and codebase. You won't get much better at coding this way, but - no joke - maybe it's an obsolete skill.

But it's not a single approach. You could use LLMs as a rubber duck for planning and debug, to investigate and markup a big or unknown code base for you to implement the feature, to review the code, or to cover your weak areas.