What matters most is training, post-training, fine-tuning and data scraping, not inference IMO. The "prompting destroys the environment" deal always seemed sensationalistic to me, I'm glad it's starting to be debunked, but at the same time we can see IRL the heavy toll the new data centers being built are taking on the energy grid. If the tech was lean at it's heart in terms of energy consumption, we wouldn't be seeing that or even the private nuclear reactor arms race by big tech.
Yupp, plus the fact that I unwillingly send prompts out by visiting a website that now has a chatbot nag me;
Among other annoyances in the economy of scale that say "if it is cheap, just use more of it".
To me, that means 1. To identify the issue that occurred (especially when you caused it), and much more importantly, 2. Put systems into place that prevent it from happening again.
Employees can feel very clearly when a manager lacks accountability and as part of mid and especially high level management (if your goal is actually improving both output and quality of people's lives) to not just say you did something wrong, but actually put your skin in the game ensuring what happened will not happen again (usually it means being better at saying no or aggressively managing prioritization rather than heaping additional tasks on people).