If you consider many companies hiring their first applied statisticians due to the AI/DS hiring, then the gains are massive. Yes, most companies probably do no

If you consider many companies hiring their first applied statisticians due to the AI/DS hiring, then the gains are massive. Yes, most companies probably do not know how to effectively leverage AI knowledge from 2012-2020 (deep learning era). But, classical ML/AI tools such linear regression, basic clustering, A* search, bayes nets etc. are older tools that many industries are now using for the first time.