I love my daughter more than anything in the world, with that said, not having kids is the smartest decision you could make.
This is so true to many people in modern days.
It used to be exactly opposite - "having kids is the smartest decision you could make" not too long ago.
Having kids meant more income (labor), and being taken cared at the old age. It was basically a necessity to survive - and if someone didn't have kids, society pitied on them as some sort of big misfortune... which was true back then.
Now having kids mean to be burned with much more expense for very very long time as more and more kids fail to launch.... and there are other ways to be taken cared at the old age as long as you have money.
I, for myself, don't want to be a burden to my only child - and I'd rather submit myself into nursing home.
Thing is, we can't go back like old days. No matter how those trad-con people say - I don't think we can. Modern comfort is like giving some candy to a child. It's easy to give, but there will be some tantrum when you take it away. Unless there's definite "urgent and immediate need" to have children at each individual level, the fertility rate won't increase in any meaningful way no matter how the society beg, encourage or even threaten... because humans tend to respond to our immediate situation, and tend to flow towards the path of least resistance... and that's not having kids.
Robots and A.I. may compensate the quality of life, but I think it will just drive more people not having kids.
Oh, it will help in terms of labor shortage issues and will make our lives easier... that really doesn't have anything to do with fundametal reason to have children.
That's why all that billions of dollars they spent on promoting young couples to have kids in Japan/Korea with maternity leave and financial support, failed miserably.
It's not the money. It's the "need" and "why" to have kids on individual level, not government welfare that's lacking.