This is a strawman argument, and not really related to "ai" in any way.

If i was going to twist this to relate to sloperators though, in your analogy it would be akin to hiring either an old school plumber using hand tools who gets the job done with no leaks, vs a 16 year old kid with a full Milwaukee toolset thats never done a job without causing Significant leaks and damage to clients homes and the businesses reputation.

Again, its not a good comparison either way.