Anyone who gets paid according to their productivity, like self employed people, is going to "justify" the use of Gen AI if it genuinely makes them more productive.

No one is going to voluntarily reduce their income by even 10% just so they can say they don't use Gen AI.

I'm in this category, but honestly there are few situations where I've found it to be sufficiently helpful.

However, I think it's possible that more mature implementations of the tech we already have could change that.

For example, I don't think voice assistants have reached their potential yet. If they weren't always listening trying to figure out what to sell me, and they had a better range of actions they could perform, I might find myself using one more regularly.