I'm from the same viewpoint, if the tool is there available and helping us to save huge time and effort on something we dreamed about for decades, why not using it? I really can't get the haters view about this
edit: reminding now how retroworks ported kings valley (konami) from msx to zx-spectrum (and c64 too?) before ai: similar method and different tools (and a huge difference on time and effort spent)