I find it really funny that this community just did a much better job showcasing the problems with AI than the one filled with anti-AI zealots ever has.
You really only ever switch distros if you're having issues with it or if you wanna tinker with another one. Given your post, you don't seem to fit either of these categories, so stick with mint and have fun being a sane person.
Dark. Sad thing is that I'm very intrigued by the overall narrative and atmosphere, but it's just so damn boring. I also thought Midnight Mass was bad but I did manage to force myself to finish that one.
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of what a mathematician does. A mathematician doesn't do math, a mathematician makes math, so no, WolframAlpha cannot do what average mathematicians from centuries ago did, let alone "genius level" mathematicians from decades ago.
I like your analogy, though, if all the math you can do can be done with WoflramAlpha, then you're not a mathematician. Hell, I have a math degree and I wouldn't even call myself a mathematician even though I can do more than WolframAlpha can. Now, if someone were to use WolframAlpha to develop new math, then I would still call them a mathematician, just like I would still call someone who uses AI to make art an artist.
As for your theft angle, all art is derivative. Good artists copy, great artists steal and all that jazz.
I don't need to know you to infer things about you. Your belief that art has zero barrier of entry is everything anyone who even has brushed the world of art needs to know that you never have.
Even by space flight standards, getting a rocket to the sun is very hard.