I was good before your last reply as I gained understanding that based on your responses you had me confused … it was more and more obvious as you outlined the discussion and quoted things I never said. As far as your experience and validation goes… When it is beneath you it will be. Eventually you’ll get to a point where you’ll realize that the only person you have to prove anything to is yourself and anyone else is a waisted effort. What i’ve learned that isn’t waisted is (paying tides) so to speak… If your blessed with something and your good at it… You get better from approaching other people’s problems a lot faster than if you focus solely on yourself. You’ll tackle alot more and gain that exact thing “experience” … the ability to both prove your experience to yourself and by default allowing others to benefit while judging your “actions”.
As far as AI in that context I understand. My previous company was like yours … the whole “Cars can’t drive on these roads paved by Horses” mentality. Most Tech companies (Like my current) that want to continue to be on the cutting edge and offer Github Co-Pilot or tools to make engineers more efficient will spin up their own private LLM or go with enterprise offerings by the larger players “AWS, Meta, Google”. I’m not at an art studio while we do have designers … AI isn’t isolated to copyright theft and taking away designer jobs no differently than the internet exist solely to pirate software/games and music. I try to keep an cautious open mind as you stated earlier you had an interest in VR when the masses are still claiming it’s a fad. I also dove heavy into this space so we have something in common 
For everyone else here looking for 5.5 preview update or issues. I’ll take the moment to self reflect and apologize that so much of this forum has been filled with this dialog.
Upon looking back at these post I’m sorry for your scroll finger or mouse wheel.
I wish you well