Yep. Plenty of people on the market with experience, and your employees know it’s a skill with market value, so they won’t resent your choice and start eyeing the door.
Makes sense. And with LLMs training on what is publicly available, this becomes self-fulfilling, because you'll get better answers from AI about what is popular - not what is technically superior.
That's already true on forums where answers depend on humans. It's possible that LLMs will make it even more prevalent but they won't have started the phenomenon.