You're right, it kinda depends on the situation itself! And the downstream effects. Although, I'd argue that the one you're talking about isn't really caused by AI itself, that's squarely a "I can't say no to the slop because they'll take my head off" problem. In healthy places, you would just say "hell no I'm not merging slop", just as you have previously said "no I'm not merging shit copypasted from stackoverflow".