I used to use smart select all the time for quickly and easily sending pre-cropped screenshots either using the edge panel shortcut or the double tap s-pen shortcut. But since it's now been turned into "AI Select" it's basically useless.
It now takes longer to use because of the stupid sparkle animation they've added and waiting to initialise the AI (that I'll never bloody use) than to just take a full-screen screenshot and then crop it.
Please, for the live of God samsung, let us turn off the AI or have AI select and Smart select as 2 separate things on the phone.