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You're not wrong about the state of the market for CS grads, I'm sorry anyone has to graduate into this. If it helps (it probably doesn't), I suspect we'll see a swing back to hiring humans in a few years as LLM costs go through the roof, and results fall short. Keeping your skills sharp and relevant, and extending them, will be a challenge.
If you have a plan to leave the US and try living elsewhere, but you parents don't think leaving is a good idea, have you tried pitching it to them as a temporary thing, like a gap year, to broaden your experiences, and maybe even get sone work experience? Even if you have no intention of returning, putting in in terms that your parents might be more comfortable with may make them more amenable to it, especially if you can imply that learning that they're right, and the US is the best place, is a likely outcome. Then, when you've been overseas for a year or two, you can tell them you've found a place you're happy.
Not sure on that, the CS field has been oversaturated for many years now. For like 2 decades straight, it was the number one STEM field people chose. While some of it can be attributed to AI, a lot of it is simply that we don't need that many CS majors.
The field has certainly been over saturated, and I'm not going to pretend that there's suddenly going to be jobs for everyone, but there is going to be a huge amount of work de-sloping code bases, and relearning the instititional knowledge that's been lost. I think that those with the right skills, and the right contacts, will be able to do well for themselves, even if the work isn't the most exciting.