I don't find it at all challenging to keep pace--I wouldn't expect that anyone who was actively working in their field would. I started writing professionally about a decade before there was an internet, before there was SEO, before people could shoot a video at home and upload it to the internet, before there was YouTube, let alone a whole sector of the profession writing YouTube scripts (and so on, and so on, and so on).
One of the things that long observation tells me is that we are entering a very different phase. In the past, the reassurance always offered was that machines could only perform actions--that people who wanted to stay employed should learn brain work rather than physical work. (That didn't work, and left us with hundreds of thousands of college graduates working minimum wage jobs and a worker shortage in the trades, but that was the promise.)
But now, the mantra has shifted. It's no longer "do what the machines can't" but "learn to serve the machines." And the obvious fact is that if AI works, it will need our assistance less and less.
I agree with you that there will be big shifts, but I don't see the same rosy ones you do. For example, a lot of writers are concerned that AI will take over their jobs. I expect something very different. I think AI will render most SEO content worthless, dramatically reducing the demand for written content. Demand will likely decline for other reasons, too, including an increased focus on other forms of content and the fact that AI will accelerate the deterioration of the average attention span.
I'll be glad for everyone who is younger than me if you turn out to be right, but across the past 40 years or so I've been pretty accurate in anticipating the curve.
