They seemed open to giving it a try if they were actively involved in the experiment. Instead, it feels like a lot of people don’t really understand how Wikipedia is managed and thought that they could use it as a freeform place to get credibility or just test their pet projects.

Like, this attempt† where the bot then attempted to lecture users who were hostile towards it before it was eventually banned.

† https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:TomWikiAssist