No, it means the manning requirements for national security drop, or at least the number of 'frontline' operator/soldiers who have to be in directly in harms way to accomplish a mission.
Even the Marine's are taking lessons from the drone war in Ukraine as they fend off Russia, and realizing that the EW spectrum is the new high ground and that a skilled drone operator can make more effective use of munitions than their original firing platform could.
The modern battlefield is also very transparent becaue of the number of drones, medical evac by chopper will be rare with how AA is overtaking airpower's ability to achieve long term air superiority on any front for any side and the proliferation of more short range AA than we've seen since WW2.
The laser aspect adds in a new, cheaper to fire weapons system, where so long as it has power and cooling and targeting, the system has a very, very, very deep 'magazine' that hit's targets at effectively the speed of light, which is fairly useful against things like hypersonics, while also being cheap enough to use on low end drones to, with the ability to dial the yield of the system down or up to some degree.
It's why so many modern warships are now being built with massively excessive power systems for their base load out, in anticipation of functional combat proven lasers become a standard fixture on large naval units.