Does a player piano rob you of playing music yourself? A car from walking? A wheelbarrow from working out? It’s up to you if you want to stop practicing!
Chess has become even more popular despite computers that can “rob us” of the joy. They’re even better practice partners.
An individual car doesn't stop you from walking but a culture that centers cars leads to cities where walking is outright dangerous.
Most car owners would never say outright "I want a car-centric culture". But car manufacturers lobbied for it, and step by step, we got both the deployment of useful car infrastructure, and the destruction or ignoring of all amenities useful for people walking or cycling.
Now let's go back to the period where cars start to become enormously popular, and cities start to build neighborhoods without sidewalks. There was probably someone at the time complaining about the risk of cars overtaking walking and leading to stores being more far away etc. And in front of them was probably someone like you calling them a luddite and being oblivious of second order effects.
Chess has become even more popular despite computers that can “rob us” of the joy. They’re even better practice partners.