The thing is, the job of the digital artist of the future will include Stable Diffusion or whatever comes next. The apprentices of tomorrow will be apprentices not at creating this kind of work by hand but at using these technologies to make art. The problem is there aren't any masters at this, yet.

As an aside, I'm not sure I'd use the term "apprentice" -- I'd maybe say "junior" as in "junior developer" or "junior designer". They're learning how to make good work, but they're still a professional in the field.