If that's your analogy, then shouldn't you be able to dominate the market by not using AI?

Cheap, fast, mechanised food provision does dominate the market. For price reasons

Nevertheless there's still a luxury market for hand prepared food.

Perhaps software will evolve the same way

This is a strawman. The point is that the original poster was going on about knives, forgetting that the final product is the actual thing that matters, not whatever tool is used to create it. In your example, if the food is inferior, then the food is inferior.