You can rip the sucralose from my cold dead hands. Keep your disgusting corn sugar.

Some people don't mind or like how it tastes.
No reason to get upset about what other people enjoy.

Pop and juice are easy ways to consume huge quantities of calories faster than you expect, but saying you need to eschew flavor if you want to not get fat is silly.

I would prefer to drink something without any sweetness at all than drink something with of this sweetener substitute. Damn, give me a salty drink before an artificial sweetener one.

My philosophy is that I don’t want to become accustomed to super-sweet everything. Because then I will crave sugar. So artificial sweeteners avoid the sugar now but they make me accustomed to wanting more sweetness in everything, which will lead to more sugar consumption later.

What do I drink? Espresso with 8oz milk (no sugar), or water, or unsweetened iced tea with maybe a splash of sweet tea on top to take away the dryness feeling. At least 5:1 ratio unsweet to sweet.

Feel like your second point contradicts the discussion considering that stimulants like caffeine tend to be appetite suppressants. Red bull zero would prob help you get skinny if anything (but idk any studies so don't take my word for it, also you'll die at 50 from a heart attack lmao)