I hear you, but every successful technology, even if used correctly and competently, makes the human using it more capable with it, and less capable without it.

I hear you, but every successful technology, even if used correctly and competently, makes the human using it more capable with it, and less capable without it. So in a way it's always a descent. And of course "more capable" includes "more capable of screwing up" as you're basically saying.