I agree wholeheartedly with your last point. Pretenders are so easily seen by word choice and phrasing alone and yet these valueless additions are accepted and not immediately called out because it's not polite to call out. For example: when minimizing or distancing themselves from their failure or associating themselves with someone else's success.

There should be zero tolerance for these types of behaviors in my opinion. I see zero evidence of these behavior even being identified by most, let alone any thought on calling them out or stopping them.

You've helped me realize that folks using llms in replace of learning to write themselves are almost certainly giving up all thought of nuance on a topic and are, without realizing it, letting the llm either ignore or add nuance based on its training data and random chance.

Hopefully the pendulum will swing the other way and there's a public epiphany but given the loss of nuance over the decades I'm not betting on it