I mean that's perfectly valid for a hobby project, but I think the argument is from the pov of a company seeing your time as a resource. In that context, it is obvious why it makes economic sense to spend your time on the actual, complex issues, assuming AI can handle the basic tasks. My job doesn't give a f about me finding joy, I can raw dog all the code I want in my free time/for hobby projects.
Well yeah, but I probably would never have done the parser for the company either. Honestly I’m luck to be in a company where most of the time I spend is not coding, but architecting instead (currently). The implementation of the architecture is mostly details.