The more plausible evolution is that people drawing the base concept are not "commercial illustrators" nor have art training. If a magazine editor with run of

The more plausible evolution is that people drawing the base concept are not "commercial illustrators" nor have art training. If a magazine editor with run of the mill drawing skill can feed the prompt a sketch with stick figures and object outlines, and get back a good enough rendition with an improved composition, the job of the illustrator will be a side job of that editor. I'm partial to the argument that being able to fix the generated image in post is a valuable skill, but on that part we already have decades of progress and people are usually more comfortable with editing tools than drawing tools.