Fear tracks pretty closely with how directly your output competes with a model. My rates for blog and SEO work dropped maybe 40% over two years, while the niche editorial clients who care about a byline still pay the same. Hard to feel hopeful when half your pipeline evaporated and the survivors are asking you to "just clean up the draft the marketing lead generated.

Fear tracks with exposure in my experience. The teachers on my team who have actually used these tools for lesson planning and feedback are cautiously optimistic, the ones who have only read headlines are convinced their jobs end next year. The study would be more useful if it broke responses down by hands on hours.