At our library we teach people how to do art, including crochet. If the person is able to go to the library then they aren't being gatekeeped from learning art.
My alternative? AI art isn't even art so at this point we're just debating what is a better skill: crafting or prompting.
LLMs are not like the birth of the internet. LLMs are more like what came after when marketing took over the roadmap. We had AI before LLMs, and it delivered high quality search results. Now we have search powered by LLMs and the quality is dramatically lower.