In the end, ease always has a cost if we let it control us.

This is very true!
It's sad that many people are getting comfortable with ease that we're losing our human abilities and creativity. The use of AI isn't the problem; though I have reservations on some its problematic uses, but it's humans without control or with dependece and over-dependence on AI that's the problem. It's meant to be a tool, not a substitution.

I also find this statement interesting;

People nowadays have very short attention span and they are used to watching short reels. if there's a longer reel, they would avoid watching it. They don't watch longer videos anymore because they feel restless.

I've heard someone talk about this and a conscious thought about it gave me insight into that reality. If we continue that way, there'll be a wave of people who can longer concentrate and feed on rich videos or content that are long, all because they're long.

This is a nice and wonderful post.