Thoughts about ai clean up tools

hi all, I am new to photography editing, and have been learning on my own using lightroom and a VERY small amount of photoshop to make my photos look better.

recently, I needed to remove a shadow from an image, and I was presented with two option, either learn how to remove it with photoshop, or use lightrooms ai touch up tool to remove it. While it would have been a good opportunity to learn, I took the easy route out (which in the end taught me nothing). But using the tool made me think, “you know, in the grand scheme of things, this tool is not as bad as generative ai, because it’s not doing all of the creative work, and the rest of the work on the photo is my own work though.” Am I alone on that idea or does anyone else agree with that statement? I think what I’m getting at is, is using a tool like touch up which deploys ai, something that other people use for their work, or should I try to avoid using tools like that?

please note that I am neither pro ai nor anti ai, if it serves me ill use it, if it doesn’t serve me I’ll destroy it, but this post is in regards to if the use of this tool will serve me well and is considered acceptable to use in the future.