Superbly well said! And essential for understanding and unpacking what "the people want it" really means when leveraged in arguments.

Now for the but - by the sake token, there are applications of LLMs that can step in to do grunt work we don't want to do (e.g. an on-the-go greasemonkey replacement that can change pages in some customized way in response to natural language requests), or engagements with art and creativity that, to the satisfaction of everyone, is something other than slop. But it shouldn't be used to advocate for constantly lowering the lowest common denominator.